As we all continue to wrap our heads around how NV Energy’s new “daily demand charge” could affect our energy bills, locals who own electric vehicles are concerned that it might significantly impact them when the charge takes effect next April.
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EV Owners Concerned About New NV Energy Charge Coming Next Year
A local EV owner reached out to us Thursday morning with that exact question, so we caught up with him at his Henderson home to hear his concerns.
“I originally saw the reporting on your station that this was happening, so I dug into it a little further and read what NV Energy had produced,” said Steve Semos. “Then after I got the email yesterday, I reached out to your station.”
Semos says as an electric vehicle owner, he’s worried that the daily demand charge could have a disproportionate impact on EV owners like himself, whose highest energy use will likely come while he charges his Tesla overnight…