NV Energy's October 2026 rate change: did your rate go up?

No. On October 1 2026 NV Energy's standard residential rate in Southern Nevada goes down. NV Energy's own October 1 insert puts the Schedule RS total effective rate at $0.11514 per kWh, down from $0.11935 on the July 1 2026 schedule. The $18.00 monthly basic service charge does not change.

People search for a "rate increase" every time a notice arrives, so this page answers that question first. If your October bill is higher than September's, the rate is not the reason. The rest of this page shows which lines moved, what it means if you have solar, and what is still pending.

What changed on October 1 2026, line by line

Both columns come from NV Energy's residential rate inserts, the July 1 2026 schedule and the October 1 2026 schedule, read side by side on the checked-on date. This is Schedule RS, the standard single family plan.

Two things did the work. The energy part of the rate came down, and the deferred energy adjustment turned into a small credit. That adjustment is the line that settles up, over time, the difference between what NV Energy expected to pay for fuel and purchased power and what it actually paid. A few small riders also moved by fractions of a cent, and the total effective rate already includes them.

The drop is $0.00421 per kWh, a little over 3.5 percent of the old total effective rate.

Is it approved, or still pending?

This is the part the August news left open, so here is exactly what the record shows.

The filing. On August 14 2026 NV Energy filed docket 26-08004 with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada. The commission's own docket list describes it as a notice "to adjust the Base Tariff Energy Rates and Deferred Energy Account Adjustment Rates effective October 1, 2026." FOX5 and KTNV reported it on August 19 as pending commission review.

The schedule. NV Energy's October 1 2026 residential insert, printed for bills this month, states that the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada "has authorized changes to Nevada Power Company d/b/a NV Energy rates effective October 1, 2026," and prints the new figures above.

What we could not open. The commission's order in docket 26-08004 was not reachable on its public site on the checked-on date. We are citing NV Energy's published schedule, which is what your bill is calculated from, and we will add the order to the sources when we can open it.

So, in force from October 1 2026: the lower RS rate on this page. Still pending: the daily demand charge, which is a separate change and is covered below.

What it does to a bill, in plain arithmetic

Multiply your monthly kWh by $0.00421. That is the change in energy charges before tax.

That table is our arithmetic on the insert's figures, not a quote from NV Energy. It leaves out the $18.00 service charge because it does not change, and it adds the Clark County local government fee, which the insert says is currently 5 percent of the subtotal. NV Energy's own August filing described a typical single family decrease of about $5.01 a month.

October is also when air conditioning use falls, so most October bills drop for a second reason that has nothing to do with the rate. If yours went the other way, why your NV Energy bill is so high walks through the causes in order.

If you are on time of use

On NV Energy's optional time of use plan, Schedule ORS-TOU, the energy rates moved down too. The winter rate, which covers every hour from October through May, goes from $0.08658 to $0.08415 per kWh. The summer on-peak rate, which applies June 1 to September 30 from 6:01 pm to 9:00 pm, goes from $0.47155 to $0.46912 per kWh on NV Energy's time of use plan, and the summer off-peak rate from $0.07305 to $0.07062.

The on-peak window does not come back until June 1 2027, so for the next eight months a time of use customer pays the winter rate around the clock. Those are energy rates before the riders; the insert lists the riders separately.

If you have solar

Your export credit goes down with the retail rate. On NV Energy's net metering inserts for Schedule RS, the Tier 4 excess energy credit moves from $0.08717 per kWh on July 1 2026 to $0.08347 per kWh on October 1 2026. The earlier tiers moved the same direction. The two Tier 4 figures are each 75 percent of the energy rate on their schedule, counting October's deferred energy credit: 75 percent of $0.11622 is $0.08717, and 75 percent of $0.11379 minus $0.00250 is $0.08347.

That cuts both ways and roughly evens out. Every kWh you buy costs less, and every kWh you export is credited at less. What 75 percent of retail means in practice is in the Tier 4 explainer.

What this change is not

It is not the daily demand charge. That is a separate restructure, scheduled for January 1 2027, under appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. NV Energy's own page says it will be broken out as a separate bill component starting in January 2027. Nothing on the October 1 2026 insert adds it. Where the court case stands is on our appeal status page, and how the charge works is on the daily demand charge page.

It is not permanent. NV Energy files these energy rate adjustments several times a year; this one is its Notice No. 26-03. That is why this page shows a checked-on date and gets rechecked. The next schedule could go either way.

It is not a Northern Nevada change. Sierra Pacific Power, the northern utility, has its own docket and its own schedule. Everything on this page is Nevada Power, which serves Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas.

What to do with this

Nothing, if all you wanted was to know whether you were paying more. You are not.

If you were weighing solar or a battery against a bill you expected to rise, run the numbers again at $0.11514, not at a guess. A lower rate stretches any payback, and anyone quoting you savings should be using the in-force schedule. If a proposal you were handed still uses the July figure, or a higher one, ask for it redone. Our rates explainer shows where each line on the schedule comes from.

We recheck this page quarterly. Last checked 2026-09-28. If a number here has moved, tell us and we will fix it the same week.