Green = Deregulation laws/orders in place
Yellow = Not deregulated

Nevada

Electricity Rates

Residential = 7 cents/kwh (National ranking: 38)

Commerical = 6 cents/kwh
(National ranking: 32)

Industrial = 4 cents/kwh(National ranking: 20)

kwh = kilowatt hour
1st ranking = highest rate in catagory

Deregulation

In light of the recent power crisis in California, Nevada has passed legislation repealing and revising its plans for deregulation. The April 2001 legislation returns utilities to regulation and prohibits the sale of their power plants before July 2003. Legislation passed in 1997 had set deregulation to begin at the end of 1999, but in July 1999 the move was postponed. In February 2001 Gov. Kenny Guinn put deregulation on indefinite hold, and the state then moved to scrap its deregulation laws.

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