Southern Nevadans will pay a first-of-its kind demand charge on electric bills beginning in April.

NV Energy received approval Tuesday from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to implement a residential and small commercial daily demand charge, which will appear on bills beginning April 16. NV Energy will become the first investor-owned utility to impose the mandatory demand charge on residential and small commercial customers; currently only larger customers like casinos have to pay demand charges.

The public utility also received approval to increase its annual revenue of $2.42 billion by “less than two-thirds” of the originally requested $224 million. NV Energy requested an increase to recover investments it made into its infrastructure.

NV Energy has until Oct. 1 to calculate

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