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USA: Nevada to examine electric deregulation timetable.
? 09/06/2000 Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2000. ? ? SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The timetable for deregulation of Nevada's electricity market will be examined at a special meeting Sept. 13, called by Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) with state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Chairman Don Soderberg, a spokesman for Guinn said Wednesday. Nevada's electricity market was to open to competition last March but Guinn delayed the timing because final rules weren't in place. ? The state's new timetable now calls for deregulation to be phased in for various classes of utility customers from Nov. 1, 2000, for big industrial companies, to residential consumers by the end of 2001. Soderberg told Reuters the timetable is subject to the governor's approval. "I have no indication that he is uncomfortable with the schedule, but we will meet to discuss all issues on deregulation," he said. The state PUC has studied the power problems Nevada's neighbour California has grappled with since electricity deregulation went into effect in 1998. Soderberg said, however, that California's problems, which are based mainly on supply and demand factors, don't necessarily mean that Nevada will delay further.
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