Sierra Pacific Power (NV Energy) Electric Rates and Bills

Sierra Pacific Power (NV Energy) reported 334,961 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 663 kWh a month on average at 13.65 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 4 Nevada utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, NV Energy ranks 3 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where NV Energy has distribution equipment. That covers 14 counties in Nevada. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, NV Energy reported an average of 240 minutes without power per customer and 2.27 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 106 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

NV Energy had about 112 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Nevada figure across its utilities was 101 minutes. One interruption lasting 106 minutes and 2.27 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 240 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. NV Energy reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 5,509 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 15,154 residential net-metered systems on the NV Energy grid in 2025, with 96.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Nevada, that review is done by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.

NV Energy is an investor-owned utility based in Nevada.

Nevada has 8 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. NV Energy is 2nd by size and serves about 25.1% of the state's homes. Nevada has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare NV Energy with its type, so the state average of 13.26 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. NV Energy lists distribution equipment in 14 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 15,154 of its residential customers use net metering, or 45.2 per 1,000 homes, against 107.6 for Nevada as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Nevada with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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