Nevada 2017 Regular Session Status: To Executive

SB 392 — Revises provisions relating to energy. (BDR 58-663)

Last action — Vetoed by the Governor. (Return to 2019 Session)

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2017 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Bill Text

How this bill changes current law

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The bill revises incentive programs for energy generation and establishes new regulations for community solar gardens in Nevada.

  • NRS 701B.005

    $255,270,000 → $295,270,000

    The bill increases the total amount of incentives that can be paid by utilities for solar energy programs.

  • NRS 701B.005

    subsection 2, → subsections 2 and 3,

    The bill clarifies that the payment of incentives is subject to multiple subsections.

  • NRS 701B.200

    50 → Seventy-five

    The bill increases the maximum incentive for public entities or nonprofit organizations to 75% of the installed cost.

  • NRS 701B.200

    50% of the installed cost of a solar energy system → fifty percent of the installed cost of a solar energy system, community solar garden or distributed generation system [,] to a person other than a public entity or nonprofit organization

    The bill clarifies the percentage of the installed cost that can be received as an incentive for other participants.

  • NRS 701B.005

    January 1, 2018, and ending on December 31, 2021 → January 1, 2018, and ending on December 31, 2023

    The bill extends the timeframe for the approval of solar energy system incentives.

  • NRS 701B.005

    approve solar energy systems totaling at least 250,000 kilowatts of capacity in this State for the period beginning on July 1, 2010, and ending on December 31, 2021. → approve solar energy systems totaling at least 250,000 kilowatts of capacity in this State for the period beginning on July 1, 2010, and ending on December 31, 2025.

    The bill extends the target capacity for approved solar energy systems.

  • NRS 701B.005

    community solar gardens and solar distributed generation systems → solar energy systems, community solar gardens and distributed generation systems

    The bill broadens the types of systems that can receive incentives.

  • NRS 701B.200

    a person other than a public entity or nonprofit organization, as determined by using the average installed cost of the solar energy systems , community solar gardens or distributed generation systems, as applicable, to such persons installed in the immediately preceding year; → a person other than a public entity or nonprofit organization, as determined by using the average installed cost of solar energy systems, community solar gardens or distributed generation systems, as applicable, in the immediately preceding year;

    The bill simplifies the language on cost determination for non-public entity incentives.

  • NRS 701B.005

    establish, as applicable, a requirement that a subscriber organization have at least 10 subscribers; → requirements for subscriber organizations, including, without limitation, a requirement that a subscriber organization have at least 10 subscribers;

    The bill formalizes membership requirements for subscriber organizations.

  • NRS 701B.200

    Other matters properly relating thereto. → and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

    The bill explicitly includes additional provisions relating to the energy programs.

  • NRS 701B.200

    and the Waterpower Energy Systems Demonstration Program created by NRS 701B.820 if the payment of the incentive would cause the total amount of incentives paid by all utilities in this State for the installation of wind energy systems and waterpower energy systems to exceed $40,000,000 for the period → or the Waterpower Energy Systems Demonstration Program created by NRS 701B.820

    The bill removes excessive constraints on wind and waterpower systems in context to solar energy incentives.

Action History

  1. Vetoed by the Governor. (Return to 2019 Session)

  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

  3. Assembly Amendment No. 1138 concurred in. To enrollment.

  4. In Senate.

  5. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 30, Nays: 12.) To Senate.

  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint .

  8. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1138.) To printer.

  9. Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution.

  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.

  12. In Assembly.

  13. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint . To Assembly.

  14. To printer.

  15. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 17, Nays: 4.)

  16. Reprinting dispensed with.

  17. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1020.)

  18. Placed on General File.

  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  20. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint . To committee.

  21. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. To printer.

  22. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 381.)

  23. Placed on Second Reading File.

  24. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  25. Waiver granted effective: April 13, 2017.

  26. From printer. To committee.

  27. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy. To printer.

Sponsors

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2 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 64 not signed on

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Not signed on (64)

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 392?
SB 392 is sponsored by Denis, Pat Spearman, and Joyce Woodhouse.
What is the current status of SB 392?
This bill died with 2017 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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