Article: Sierra Pacific Power Files General Rate Case; Seeks to Defer Portion of Rate Increase to Lessen Impact on Customers.

Sierra Pacific Power Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sierra Pacific Resources , today filed its mandatory biennial General Rate Case (GRC) with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN). Sierra Pacific's filing is designed to lessen the impact of a rate increase by deferring a portion of its total request until 2005, at a time when the implementation of the balance would be significantly offset by the expiration of previously granted deferred energy filings that customers are currently paying.

As a result of the proposed deferral, today's filing requests a 9.7 percent overall rate increase beginning June 1, 2004. Without the deferral until 2005, ...

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