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Sierra Pacific Power Company dba NV Energy: what it publishes for small generators (qualifying facilities) under PURPA, field by field, with the source for each. Checked on October 4, 2026.
When this may change: Annual, in tariff format: NAC 704.8783 requires each utility to file its short-term avoided costs annually, and within 60 days after the Commission issues an order accepting its resource plan. The tariff says rates continue in effect until superseded.
Rates, eligibility and contract terms change: confirm them with the utility or the state utility commission before relying on them.
| Schedule | Schedule No. CSPP, Short-Term Rates Cogeneration and Small Power Production (Electric Tariff No. 2, PUCN Sheet Nos. 2 and 3) Note: NV Energy's QF page names Schedule CSPP as the pricing for northern Nevada resources. The rest of the Tariff No. 2 PDF (Sheets 4-15) is 'Held for Future Use'. Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · also: nvenergy.com: qualifying-facilities · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
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| Docket or order | PUCN Docket No. 24-12007: Advice Letter No. 678-E, filed 12/09/2024, to revise Schedule CSPP - Short-Term (annual NAC 704.8783 filing) Note: Commission order dated 2/20/25 (vote at the February 11, 2025 general session) grants the application and approves the revised tariff effective April 1, 2025 (scanned; read by eye). The OnBase document link is session-specific and may expire; if so, search the docket number at https://puc-onbase.nv.gov/ (type 'PUC - Public Search - Dockets'). Source: pucweb1.state.nv.us: Dktinfo.aspx?Util=All · also: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf, puc-onbase.nv.gov: AXyKdrXCExpÁ9akk5X8v6asK41Llm1l9gO7SsPoWClUbgNg…, puc-onbase.nv.gov · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Effective date | 2025-04-01 Note: Sheets 2 and 3: Issued 12-09-24, Effective 04-01-25. The PUCN order (scanned; read by eye) approves the tariff effective April 1, 2025. No later Schedule CSPP filing appears in the PUCN all-dockets list (entries through September 2026), so this is taken as the version in effect on 2026-10-04. Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · also: puc-onbase.nv.gov: AXyKdrXCExpÁ9akk5X8v6asK41Llm1l9gO7SsPoWClUbgNg…, pucweb1.state.nv.us: Dktinfo.aspx?Util=All · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Next update | Annual, in tariff format: NAC 704.8783 requires each utility to file its short-term avoided costs annually, and within 60 days after the Commission issues an order accepting its resource plan. The tariff says rates continue in effect until superseded. Note: Recent filings: Dockets 22-02012 (Feb 2022), 23-12014 (Dec 2023), 24-12007 (Dec 2024). No 2025 or 2026 filing appears in the PUCN docket list as of 2026-10-04. The joint 2027-2046 IRP (Docket 26-05007, filed 05/07/2026) is pending, so a refiling is expected within 60 days after an order accepting it. NAC 704.8783 asks for $/kWh peak and off-peak costs, but the approved tariff uses hourly indices instead. Source: leg.state.nv.us: NAC-704.html · also: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf, pucweb1.state.nv.us: Dktinfo.aspx?Util=All · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Size cap | No size cap printed; applies to short-term purchases from QFs where no other schedule specifically applies. QFs of 100 kW nameplate or less may choose time-differentiated or non-time-differentiated rates; QFs over 100 kW must use time-differentiated rates.Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Resource types | Any QF (cogeneration or small power production); no resource-specific rates. Rates differ only by firm vs non-firm energy and by time-differentiated vs non-time-differentiated pricing.Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Energy rate structure | Hourly market-indexed, all quarters. Time-differentiated: firm energy is paid, each hour, the lesser of the Powerdex COB and Powerdex Mead/Marketplace hourly index prices; non-firm energy the lesser of the highest hourly system incremental generation cost or those two hourly index prices. Non-time-differentiated (QFs of 100 kW or less only): the average of the firm or non-firm hourly rates for the billing period. No fixed, seasonal or levelized prices are printed.Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Energy rates (sample cells) |
Copied as printed: a few labelled cells, not the full rate matrix. The whole schedule is linked below. Note: The tariff prints no unit for the hourly index prices; $/MWh follows its fallback clause ('a rate per MWH equal to the average of the applicable hourly prices'). Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Capacity payment | None separate: the capacity cost is included in the firm energy rate.Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Contract terms | The schedule states no contract term. NV Energy's QF page says a Power Purchase Agreement is required for a QF to be paid, and that long-term avoided cost pricing depends on the company's most recently approved IRP filings. Purchases are subject to Rule No. 15 of Electric Tariff No. 1, and the utility accepts all offered purchases, subject to 18 C.F.R. 292.304(f). Note: Public page: https://www.nvenergy.com/about-nvenergy/rates-regulatory/qualifying-facilities (rendered by script; text taken from the site's content feed cited here). The process flowchart says the QF reviews a standard PPA. Source: nvenergy.com: qualifying-facilities · also: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf, nvenergy.com: QF-Process-Flowchart-External.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Price fixity | Not fixed: paid at hourly index prices (or their billing-period average for QFs of 100 kW or less). Energy counts as firm only if backed by firm resources under a firm contract, pre-scheduled, or financially firm with liquidated damages; other energy is paid the non-firm rate.Source: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · checked 2026-10-04 | |||||||||||||||
| Schedule link | https://www.nvenergy.com/publish/content/dam/nvenergy/brochures_arch/about-nvenergy/rates-regulatory/electric-book-2-north/CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdfSource: nvenergy.com: CSPP_Electric_2_North.pdf · also: nvenergy.com: qualifying-facilities · checked 2026-10-04 |
Values are copied as printed in the source. Where a value draws on more than one document, every source is listed, primary first.
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