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Nevada Power Co rate plans
2 residential plans are currently open to new customers that we can price side by side. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
What does Nevada Power cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,443 a year on the cheapest of the 6 plans we can price here — RM Residential Service-Multi Family — and $2,566 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $771 | RM Residential Service-Multi Family | $1,875 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,443 | RM Residential Service-Multi Family | $2,566 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,788 | RM Residential Service-Multi Family | $3,948 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Nevada Power Co files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,363 and $1,411 a year. That $48 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.
1 of these 2 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.
How Nevada Power compares across Nevada
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 2 Nevada utilities we cover, and Nevada Power is the cheapest of the lot at about $1,363 a year; the state median is $1,577. The dearest, Valley Electric Assn, charges $1,791 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $807 here against a state median of $966, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,806 against $2,063. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 14.4¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Inside Nevada Power itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $48 a year — less than the $428 between Nevada's cheapest and dearest utilities. Here the address decides most of the bill; the plan decides the rest.
Every Nevada utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
When are Nevada Power’s peak hours?
Nevada Power’s peak hours are 7pm–10pm, 1pm–7pm, June–September on 2 of its 3 time-of-use plans — the rest use different windows, below. Everything outside those hours is off-peak, apart from a mid-priced shoulder period.
At peak, OLRS-TOU Optional Large Residential Service Time of Use charges 39.9¢ a kWh; off-peak it is 8.1¢ — 4.9× apart. These hours only matter on a time-of-use plan — the default plan, RS (Residential Service), charges one rate at every hour.
| Plan | Peak hours | Peak | Off-peak | Weekends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLRS-TOU Optional Large Residential Service Time of Use | 7pm–10pm, 1pm–7pm, June–September | 39.9¢ | 8.1¢ | partly priced |
| ORS-TOU Optional Residential Service Time of Use | 7pm–10pm, 1pm–7pm, June–September | 47.7¢ | 7.8¢ | partly priced |
| ORM-TOU Optional Multi-Family Residential Service Time of Use | 6pm–10pm, 1pm–7pm, June–September | 37.0¢ | 7.5¢ | partly priced |
On ORS-TOU Optional Residential Service Time of Use, every kilowatt-hour a day you move from 7pm to midnight is worth about $145 a year in the month the gap is widest — an electric car or a water heater on a timer is the kind of load that actually moves. When to charge an electric car →
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 12,054 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$1,352a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — ORM-DDP – Optional Residential Service – Multi Family – Daily Demand Pricing — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| ORM-DDP – Optional Residential Service – Multi Family – Daily Demand PricingOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,129 | — |
| ORS-DDP – Optional Residential Service – Daily Demand PricingOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,212 | +$83 |
| OLRS-DDP – Optional Large Residential Service – Daily Demand PricingOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,227 | +$98 |
| ORM-TOU Optional Multi-Family Residential Service Time of UsePeak hits 6pm–10pm every day, all year. | $1,420 | +$291 |
| RM Residential Service-Multi FamilyOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,447 | +$319 |
| ORS-TOU Optional Residential Service Time of UsePeak hits 7pm–10pm every day, all year. | $1,635 | +$506 |
| RS (Residential Service)One rate, every hour of the year. | $1,678 | +$549 |
| OLRS-TOU Optional Large Residential Service Time of UsePeak hits 7pm–10pm every day, all year. | $2,471 | +$1,342 |
| LRS Large Residential ServiceOne rate, every hour of the year. | $2,480 | +$1,352 |
An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.
- LRS Large Residential Serviceflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
10.8¢ - OLRS-DDP – Optional Large Residential Service – Daily Demand Pricingdemand charge
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - OLRS-TOU Optional Large Residential Service Time of Usetime-of-use
Peak hits 7pm–10pm every day, all year.
8.1–39.9¢ - ORM-DDP – Optional Residential Service – Multi Family – Daily Demand Pricingdemand charge
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - ORM-TOU Optional Multi-Family Residential Service Time of Usetime-of-use
Peak hits 6pm–10pm every day, all year.
7.5–37.0¢ - ORS-DDP – Optional Residential Service – Daily Demand Pricingdemand charge
One rate, every hour of the year.
9.4¢ - ORS-TOU Optional Residential Service Time of Usetime-of-use
Peak hits 7pm–10pm every day, all year.
7.8–47.7¢ - RM Residential Service-Multi Familyflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
11.2¢ - RS (Residential Service)flat
One rate, every hour of the year.
12.1¢