LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — NV Power is getting new management, asserting that President and CEO Doug Cannon is leaving for a brand new alternative after seven years in that position.
Brandon Barkhuff has been named as Cannon’s successor, in keeping with NV Power. Barkhuff managed and led the corporate’s authorized, compliance, environmental, customer support and vitality effectivity capabilities as senior vice chairman, common counsel, company secretary and chief compliance officer.
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“Brandon is a lifelong resident of Nevada, providing him with a strong understanding of the needs of the customers and communities NV Energy serves,” in keeping with an NV Power information launch.
Brandon Barkhuff. (Courtesy: NV Power)
NV Power serves 1,046,658 clients in Southern Nevada, in keeping with the corporate’s web site. Statewide, NV Power serves 1,431,060 clients. The corporate is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
Final week, the Public Utilities Fee of Nevada (PUCN) stated it will examine NV Power after discovering that tens of hundreds of shoppers have been overcharged since as early as 2001. Between April 1, 2017, and April 1, 2024, roughly 60,000 clients might have been overcharged over $17 million, in keeping with paperwork.
The Nevada Conservation League issued a scathing assertion on Cannon’s departure.
“For years, NV Energy has prioritized wealthy shareholders over the people they serve. Doug Cannon’s resignation has been a long time coming,” Kristee Watson, government director of the Nevada Conservation League, stated. “Whether it’s $17 million in overcharges, failed clean energy programs, or relentless opposition to legislation that would lower energy bills, the pattern is clear: NV Energy needs to be held accountable. This is a utility that has greenwashed its image while blocking real progress. The new leadership must break with the past and start putting customers first.”
NV Power’s Doug Cannon speaks at an October announcement at Dry Lake, northeast of Las Vegas. (Greg Haas / 8NewsNow)
Cannon took over as president at NV Power in 2018 and added the position of CEO in 2019.
Cannon’s departure comes because the Trump administration has moved to alter insurance policies that favored renewable vitality throughout the Biden administration. Federal assist for photo voltaic and wind technology of electrical energy is being eradicated, leveling the taking part in subject for oil and fuel exploration.
The corporate is creating Greenlink Nevada, transmission traces that would carry energy from photo voltaic farms across the state. A couple of 12 months in the past, NV Power stated inflation had elevated the price of Greenlink by about 68%. NV Power additionally owns Dry Lake, a photo voltaic mission simply northeast of Las Vegas.
On the identical time, NV Power has moved to construct pure fuel “peakers” — vegetation to satisfy peak demand — alongside Interstate 80 in Northern Nevada.
