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PUCN accepts consent items and grants Southwest Gas territory expansion in unanimous votes
Summary
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada unanimously approved meeting minutes, accepted general‑counsel and staff recommendations, and granted Southwest Gas Corporation's stipulation to expand its Northern Nevada service territory into parts of Lyon County (Docket No. 24‑11001), with post‑order filing requirements.
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada voted unanimously to approve routine consent items and a stipulation expanding Southwest Gas Corporation’s Northern Nevada service territory into areas of Lyon County.
Commissioners present — Chair (name not specified), Commissioner Cordova and Commissioner Brown — approved the March 11 meeting minutes and accepted the office of general counsel’s recommendations without discussion. Commissioner Brown presented Docket No. 24‑11001, an application by Southwest Gas Corporation to amend its certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPC 2627 sub 8) to extend service territory contiguous to its existing Northern Nevada territory in Lyon County. He said the signatories reached a stipulation that resolves all issues in the docket, and the order before the commission recommended accepting the stipulation and granting the application as modified by the stipulation.
The commission’s action on Docket No. 24‑11001 included the following directives drawn from the stipulation: Southwest Gas must file an advice letter within 90 days of the commission’s final order to make changes to Section 1.4 of PUCN Sheet No. 55 that reflect the proposed and existing service territories and their legal descriptions; and future transportation‑service‑eligible customers in the expansion area who qualify under Schedule NT‑1 will be required to sign a transportation service agreement for as long as they remain transportation‑service‑eligible customers of Southwest Gas.
The commission then voted to adopt several other regulatory operations staff items (listed in the meeting as agenda items 4a, 4b, 5a and 5b) without discussion. All recorded motions were approved by voice vote with no recorded dissents.
Votes at a glance: • Approval of March 11 meeting minutes — mover: Chair (name not specified); second: Commissioner Brown; vote: Chair yes, Commissioner Cordova yes, Commissioner Brown yes; outcome: approved. • Docket No. 24‑11001 (Southwest Gas Corporation application to extend Northern Nevada service territory into Lyon County) — presented by Commissioner Brown; motion: “accept the stipulation, grant the application as delineated by the stipulation, and issue the appropriate order” (verbatim motion as stated by Commissioner Brown); mover: Commissioner Brown; second: Chair (name not specified); vote: Chair yes, Commissioner Cordova yes, Commissioner Brown yes; outcome: approved. Key provisions: file advice letter within 90 days to update Section 1.4 of PUCN Sheet No. 55; require NT‑1 customers in expansion area to sign transportation service agreements. • Agenda item 3a (office of general counsel recommendation) — mover: Chair (name not specified); second: Commissioner Cordova; vote: Chair yes, Commissioner Cordova yes, Commissioner Brown yes; outcome: approved. • Agenda items 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b (regulatory operations staff recommendations) — mover: Chair (name not specified); second: Commissioner Brown; vote: Chair yes, Commissioner Cordova yes, Commissioner Brown yes; outcome: approved.
The transcript records no roll‑call tallies beyond unanimous voice votes and does not indicate any amendments to the stipulation or additional conditions beyond those described by Commissioner Brown.
