State Policy Roadmaps
Nevada
Advanced Energy United’s resource, "Advanced Energy Creates Opportunities for Nevada: A Policy Roadmap for Nevada’s Governor," outlines how Nevada's Governor can support the expansion of affordable advanced energy generation and storage, increase the capacity and efficiency of the state’s energy infrastructure through grid resilience technologies, champion the continued growth of the EV industry; and promote customer-facing technologies to make energy more affordable for the state.
To achieve these goals, Advanced Energy United’s recommendations for Nevada’s Governor focus on these core tenets:
- Build It: Nevada must prioritize reforms to planning, siting, permitting, interconnection, and procurement of advanced energy resources. Energy prices are too high in part because there are too many barriers for advanced energy to connect to the grid and provide low-cost power. While there are also federal barriers, Nevada can lead on building advanced energy to meet load growth from AI and ensure households and businesses have reliable energy.
- Make it Flexible: Nevada can lower costs right now by making it easier to adopt technologies that make electric demand flexible. This means scaling up distributed energy resources (DERs), energy efficiency (EE), virtual power plants (VPPs), and advanced vehicle and building electrification solutions via state programs, plans, and rates. These innovative technologies make it easier for grid operators to keep costs down in real-time and in the long run. They also prepare the grid for increased electricity demand from data centers, domestic manufacturing, electric vehicles (EVs), and heat pumps.
- Make it Affordable: Energy costs are higher if we do not properly plan energy investments. Our governor can take steps to ensure that our public utilities are planning, optimizing, and delivering the right types of energy investment at the lowest possible cost, while also identifying least-cost financing avenues for projects both big and small and working with our partners around the region to better share energy across state lines.
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