AB 529 — Revises provisions governing facilities for the generation of electricity. (BDR 58-427)

(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 21, 2025) FIRST REPRINT A.B.

529–COMMITTEE ON GROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE (O N BEHALF OF THE JOINT NTERIM S TANDING COMMITTEE ON G ROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE ) M ARCH 24, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing facilities for the generation of electricityelectricity. from solar energy.

requiring certain wholesale facilities for the generation of electricity from solar energy to purchase power from certain small electric utilities;

requiring a provider of electric service that serves a wholesale generation facility in the service territory of certain small electric utilities to make certain payments to the utility;

(Chapters 709 and 710 of NRS) This bill requires certain wholesale facilities for the generation of electricity from solar energy which are located within the service territory of such a cooperative association, nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association or municipal utility to purchase the energy required to corporationoperate, ormaintain nonprofit association or municipal utility.

(1) adhere to all rules, rates and policies established by the governing board of the cooperative association, nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association or municipal utility;utility relating to the delivery of and payment for power;

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and (2) requires a provider of electric service that provides power to a nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association or municipal utility to make certaintion, payments to the cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association or municipal utility.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

(b) Adhere to all rules, rates and policies established by the governing board of the rural electric utility.utility relating to the delivery of and payment for station power.

(c) GrantAuthorize access by the rural electric utility to install or certify the facilitiesproper operation of a meter that measures the use of station power by a wholesale generation facility asand necessaryprovides tothe accuratelyrural measureelectric orutility assesswith theaccurate servicemonthly loadreadings of thethat wholesaleuse. generation facility.

A rural electric utility may charge to a wholesale generation facility a retail rate for station power which is commensurate with the rate the rural electric utility charges to customers in its service territory with comparable load magnitudes, load factors and other relevant characteristics.

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If a wholesale generation facility receives station power from a provider of electric service other than the rural electric utility for the service territory in which the wholesale generation facility is located, the provider of electric service shall remit to the rural electric utility an amount equal to the payment which the wholesale generation facility would have paid for such station power if provided by the rural electric utility.

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- *AB529_R1* – 3 – (1) A cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association or provider of electric service which is declared to be a public utility pursuant to NRS 704.673 and which provides service only to its members;

(c) “Station power” means energy used on the site of a wholesale generation facility for the operation, maintenance or repair of the facility, including, without limitation, energy used for heating, lighting, air-conditioning,thermal regulation, fuel processing and powering equipment.

(d)The “Wholesaleterm: generation facility” means a facility for the generation of electricity from solar energy that has a capacity in excess of 1 megawatt and:

(1) Includes any such load:

(I) That is served by a provider of electric service over a distribution line that is connected to the system of the provider of electric service at a point that is separate from the switchyard where a generation or storage resource of the wholesale generation facility is connected to the transmission system;

or (II) That is served by the system of a provider of electric service that is connected to the transmission system at the same point as a generation or storage resource of the wholesale generation facility during any period when the generation or storage resource is idle.

(2) With respect to a wholesale generation facility which generates electricity from geothermal resources, does not include energy used to operate fans or pumps or parasitic loads associated with the production of electricity from a geothermal resource.

(d) “Wholesale generation facility” means a facility for the generation of electricity that has a capacity in excess of 1 megawatt and:

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(a) Upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting any regulations and performing any other preparatory administrativeyadministrative tasks that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act;

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