INTRODUCTION FOR EACH OF THE COMMISSIONERS, INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS WILL FOLLOW!
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
OK! We have THREE so-called ‘COMMISSIONERS’, who are SUPPOSED to BALANCE THE INTERESTS OF THE UTILITIES AND THE RATEPAYERS!
Ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up and an energy lawyer is not in the top five, or even 20, typical responses. Yet that is exactly what a young Wisconsin girl named Hayley Williamson knew she was meant to do. “My dad was a utility lawyer and my mom was a scientist, so from a young age I’d get quizzed on different types of transmission lines,” said Hayley, #TeamTRPA’s Vice Chair of the Governing Board. Hayley’s natural curiosity and enthusiasm propelled her through Vermont Law School and later a master’s degree through Cambridge University, where she dove into the tension between renewable energy infrastructure, conservation, and land use. Her experience and Stateline, Nevada permanent address made her a perfect fit for her role as Chairwoman for the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada. She is finishing a four-year term this Fall and hopes to be reappointed for another term. “I love everything about what I do right now,” said Hayley. “We regulate 400 investor-run utilities to ensure that electricity, water, wastewater, natural gas, and rail meet all regulations and remain at a fair cost for Nevadans. (she voted to support the bullshit order by fellow Commissioner Tammy Cordova regarding the enactment of a demand charge)” Hayley is in her third year as the Nevada-At-Large representative of the TRPA Governing Board. She is one of 15 members that make policy decisions that guide development and progress in the Tahoe Basin. It’s an important role that Hayley feels privileged to serve. “My goal is to be prepared to be an informed, effective decision maker (ignoring the fact that she is the chair of the Tahoe agency poised to approve lenient codes despite repeated public safety, environmental warnings .) Many votes are unanimous, and that’s a testament to the important collaborative process that staff and we employ to arrive at recommendations.” To balance a full work and volunteer load, Hayley likes to slowly jog with her ambitious six-year-old son and play outside with her husband and baby daughter. She’s training for her first marathon in April.
TAMMY CORDOVA, RANDY BROWN, HAYLEY WILLIAMSON.This clearly defines how they perceive their job...IGNORE the ratepayers, keep NVE content (so they will let their connection/s to the Governor, know to reappoint them), generate Common Core ‘Accounting’.
PUKE is NOT funded via the General Fund, they are supported by a VIG. oops, I mean 'Mill Tax', assessed on utility billing. AND THESE THREE ASSHOLES THINK THAT THEY CAN BE IMPARTIAL WHEN THEIR FINANCIAL SOLVENCY IS CONTINGENT UPON KEEPING RATES HIGH!
WOW! A SLUSH FUND of $5,384,852, INCREASING the VIG from 2.67 to 3.04! WHY DO THEY NEED THIS MUCH MONEY IN RESERVE???? Here's Barbie's Budget that they RUBBERSTAMPED as usual!
What these THREE are BALANCING is their PRIME DIRECTIVE to KEEP getting REAPPOINTED!
I think Barbie should expense KNEE PADS for these 3.
Lets review irrefutable FACTS as to the LACK of so called 'we are PUKE' and we know the LAW, bullshit that they want the ratepayers to acknowledge! Weir erroneously thinks we should RESPECT them...PROVE you are worthy of it, ADMIT when you are INCOMPETENT not brushing it under the carpet!! To quote incompetent Weir, who has been with PUKE prior to the Smart Meter Fiasco, his LACK OF KNOWLEDGE was UNCOVERED by a ratepayer and a former Chair brought forth one of the issues into a docket. So Weir is FAR from 'fully schooled' in PUKE's NAC/NRS, same with Tammy, she should have known this!
They fucking claim that they READ all the comments submitted...BULLSHIT! They were NOTIFIED of the statements made by Gary Smith, the one who over saw the installation of the NSMO, via a video from the FIRST workshop on it!!
ULTIMATE PROOF THAT PUKE DOESN’T DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE! WHY IS NVE’S SMART METER GRANT ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE? THIS IS CONFIRMED BY 10 USC 2358, UNDER SECTION 9, AUTHORITY, HERE IS THE FEDERAL CODE EXPLANATION! WHY IS THE US CODE FOR THIS GRANT INVOLVING EXPERIMENTATION? Since when is a smart/spark meter suppose to do ANYTHING but record energy use and report back on it? This association is being investigated by a filmmaker in Canada to see if this was only here, or something that involves every single person in the US to be an UNWILLING subject in this issue? ONLY AFTER HELL WAS RAISED, DID NVE GET A CORRECTED GRANT COVER SHEET! RATEPAYER IDENTIFIED!
Your bullshit application of the Delphi Technique is NOT ACCEPTABLE!
One has to wonder, do they teach 'psychology/damage control' in law school? Or is that only obtained from working in a REAL WORLD, private environment ,where you have to keep things under control? So that power hungry people can learn how to handle stupid actions on their part? Go take a class on Industrial Psych or Interpersonal Skills as they apply to to the world, not your lil cloistered environment.
One would expect that once the Smart Meter Opt Out was decided it was time to move on. Those who wished to opt out begrudgingly agreed to compensate NV Energy for ONLY the costs associated with having the employee come out to read the meter, NO OTHER energy expenses.
On February 14, 2025, NV Energy filed their General Rate Case (GRC). Volume 11, starting on Page 100, Testimony of Samantha Prest, determined that since the Legacy Meters can’t ‘monitor, spy on ratepayers, they have to be FORCED into their NANNY STATE Program commonly referred to as ‘Demand Meter Charge’. Because the Legacy meters are cumulative usage not identifiable, she submitted sworn under oath testimony that we should be charged our monthly extortion fee of $8.82 to $29.60, this is IN addition to the standard monthly Basic Service Charge. Prest is trying to change the ENTIRE purpose of the monthly extortion fee, to compensate at a ‘FLAT RATE’ charged to the opt out ratepayers. Those who don’t have heavy usage are being penalized while NVE seeks to be the ULTIMATE BIG BROTHER on how to run their lives.
When the Smart Meter fiasco ensued we were ASSURED that Smart Meters would NOT be used to charge ratepayers, to try and convince us to accept the Spy/spark meter.They nitpick on draft orders and when presented with one of 185 pages, the DAY BEFORE of the agenda meeting, they basically said no comments. EVEN THOUGH HELLIE STARTED HER RESPONSE WITH 'I READ THE ENTIRE ORDER', yeah, RIGHT!. Like you were ABLE to READ 185 pages....you, with a family to take care of as if you BROUGHT it home...or you took an Evelyn Wood Speed Reading class to go thru it in less than the 2.5 hours remaining the day before!
COMING SOON
RANDY BROWN