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Solar by stateSeptember 2026

Solar in Nevada: how the rules work

How Nevada credits the power solar panels send back to the grid, what homes there pay for electricity, and what to check when a home with solar is bought or sold.

Export credit
Reduced credit
About 75% of retail
Largest utility
NV Energy (Nevada Power, southern NV)
Home electricity
13.5¢/kWh
Rising ~1.5%/yr over 10 years (EIA)
Typical installed price
$2.39/W
State average quote before incentives (EnergySage)

How exported power is credited

Power sent to the grid is credited at a set share of the retail rate, below what the home pays for power it buys.

New customers are credited at 75% of the retail energy rate (Tier 4, since June 2020); Tier 1-3 customers (June 2017-June 2020) keep 95/88/81% for 20 years, and pre-2016 original-NEM customers keep full retail for 20 years. In Nevada Power's (southern NV) territory netting remains monthly; the 15-minute netting interval was adopted only for Sierra Pacific (northern NV), where new solar customers approved on or after Oct 1, 2025 are netted every 15 minutes (tariff NMR-2025, Docket 25-03006), which lowers real-world value below the headline 75%. The PUCN also approved a mandatory daily demand charge for southern Nevada residential customers, billed on each day's highest 15-minute use and offset by lower energy and basic service charges; on March 31, 2026 it was delayed from April 2026 to Jan 1, 2027. District courts rejected challenges in May 2026, and Vote Solar and the Attorney General's consumer bureau have appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court (Sept 2026). In Aug 2026 an interim legislative committee declined to pursue a bill on the demand charge.

What changes for a home with solar

A savings estimate that assumes full retail credit for exported power overstates the value of that power for systems on the current rules. Power used in the home still offsets the full retail rate.

Older systems are often grandfathered on earlier, better terms for a set number of years. Which rules a particular system is on depends on its interconnection date, stated in the note above.

Electricity here costs about 13.5¢ per kWh (2026) and has risen about 1.5% a year over the last decade. A lease or PPA escalator above that pace makes the solar payment rise faster than utility rates have.

When a home with solar is sold in Nevada

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