1. The Commission shall establish by regulation for each electric utility goals for energy savings resulting from energy efficiency programs implemented by the electric utility each year, which must be included in the resource plan filed by the electric utility pursuant to NRS 704.741.
2. The Commission may:
(a) Modify a goal for energy savings it has previously established for an electric utility.
(b) Upon receipt of a petition submitted by an electric utility, temporarily lower a goal for energy savings it has previously established for the electric utility if the electric utility demonstrates that economic reasons which are not reasonably within the control of the electric utility will prevent the electric utility from meeting the goal for energy savings established pursuant to subsection 1.
3. Upon establishment or modification by the Commission of a goal for energy savings for an electric utility pursuant to this section, the affected electric utility may file an amendment to its most recent resource plan filed pursuant to NRS 704.741 to incorporate the goal for energy savings into the resource plan.
4. Each electric utility shall develop and include in its most recent resource plan filed pursuant to NRS 704.741 an energy efficiency plan that:
(a) Is designed to meet or exceed the goals for energy savings established by the Commission pursuant to this section;
(b) Includes one or more energy efficiency programs; and
(c) Is cost effective.
5. In approving an energy efficiency plan developed by an electric utility to meet the goals for energy savings established by the Commission pursuant to this section, the Commission shall approve an energy efficiency plan that is:
(a) Designed to meet or exceed the goals for energy savings established by the Commission pursuant to this section; and
(b) Cost effective.
6. The Commission may approve an energy efficiency plan submitted pursuant to NRS 704.741 that consists of energy efficiency and conservation programs that are not cost effective if the Commission determines that the energy efficiency plan as a whole is cost effective.
7. Unless the Commission determines that it is not cost effective, any energy efficiency plan approved by the Commission must provide that not less than 5 percent of the total expenditures related to energy efficiency programs must be directed to energy efficiency programs for low-income customers of the electric utility.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 4292)
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