A legal effort to derail NV Energy’s attempt to change the way it calculates customers’ bills will be heard in Clark County District Court, Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled Tuesday. Holthus rejected a motion filed by the utility and the Public Utilities Commission to consolidate the case with another filed in Carson City.
“I’m not going to grant the motion to transfer at this point,” Holthus said. “I just don’t think there’s a reason to, based upon the totality of it.”
In September, the PUC approved NV Energy’s application for a $119 million rate hike to be achieved by imposing a peak demand charge on residential and small business customers in Southern Nevada and changing the way net metering credits are calculated for some Northern Nevada ratepayers…