All,
In summary, below is a very lengthy industry notice with information on the following:
· Additional reimbursements for line extension agreements (LEAs) from NV Energy (NVE)
· Electric vehicle mandates
· NVE design and anticipated load calculations
· Transformer shortage
· Townhomes docket, asking NVE to consider them under their single family "RS" rate for tariff purposes
· Clark County Transform timeline
As many of you are aware, we have consulted with a lobbying firm (Davison Van Cleve) over the past 18 months to intervene on NV Energy's Transportation Electrification Plan (PUCN Docket #22-09006). We have worked incredibly closely with the NVE team and are grateful for their efforts to ensure for the first time in their Integrated Resources Plan, a line extension agreement and tariff modification has ever been considered.
While SNHBA largely supported the Transportation Electrification Plan (or TEP), and an "EV Adder" for single-family cases, NVE currently classifies "townhomes" under their multifamily (RM) rate, which did not have an EV Adder originally filed.
Last month, the PUCN largely accepted the TEP, with a modification requiring an additional EV Adder for their MF rate.
As of yesterday at 5:05 PM, NVE filed their compliance order with the PUCN and the amended tariff is effective immediately. We are awaiting NVE’s decision on whether or not signed and/or modified line extension agreements with EV infrastructure installed will qualify for the adder or if it will be enforced on new LEAs moving forward.
Additionally, we are also still awaiting NVE’s plan to release a new design for load calculations based on the new TEP. We anticipate load calculations for all residential units to go up and it may affect the number of homes or MF units per transformer. We are flagging this for you as it will likely move quickly once published and may be impacted by the federal transformer shortage and the energy conservation standards for distribution transformers and all the work NAHB is doing at the federal level.
For those that are installing EV, please review closely the requirements to qualify for the EV Adder for your current communities. You can find the specifics below or in Attachment 3 (page 9):
- Single Family Detached, "Schedule RS (outside of master planned communities)"
- Existing allowance per unit $3,890
- Plus an additional EV allowance adder of $1,751 per unit
- Totaling: $5,641 per unit for SFD that have EV ready wiring
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Note: the EV allowance adder is incremental and applied to EV charger capable installations; which is defined on page 129 of the full PUCN Order. "Make-ready home wiring for any level 2 charger while leaving the actual charger selection to the homeowner"
- Townhomes, Condos, Apartments, "Schedule RM (outside of master planned communities)"
- Existing allowance per unit $982
- Plus an additional EV allowance adder of $769 per unit
- Totaling: $1,751 per unit for RM units that have EV in a garage or parking installation on the same meter as the customer's residence
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Note: the EV allowance adder is incremental and applied to EV charger capable installations defined as sharing the common meter with the customer's residential unit.
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Page 4 of NVE's compliance order also clarifies the $769 additional per unit applies only "for a garage or parking installation that is served through the same meter as the customer's residence."
Once Clark County adopts their "Transform Clark County" draft (anticipated in the next two months) that has an EV-ready mandate for all residential units (SFD, SFA and multifamily), every community will need to meet the following requirements (we do not anticipate these changing, but the document is still a "draft"). We anticipate other jurisdictions following the County's EV mandates, but do not have details at this time on anticipated adoption.
Clark County's mandate can be found in Table 30.04-5: EV Charging Spaces by Land Use on page 231 of the latest draft here.
