Valley Electric Association, Inc.
Valley Electric Association is a member-owned cooperative serving about 25,066 accounts across a roughly 6,800-square-mile territory along the Nevada and California line, centered on Pahrump and serving Nye and neighboring rural Nevada counties plus a small portion of eastern California. As a co-op, VEA self-governs through a member-elected board and deregistered from Public Utilities Commission of Nevada rate regulation years ago. VEA has no EV-specific time-of-use rate, no residential or commercial EV charger rebate, and no managed-charging program at this time; its only related distributed-energy offering is a net billing program for rooftop solar.
At a glance
Cooperative- Serves
- California, Nevada
- Customers
- 25,066
- EV rate plan
- –
- EVSE rebate
- –
- Managed-charging program
- –
Valley Electric Association does not publish an EV-specific or residential time-of-use rate. Residential members are billed on a standard rate with a flat energy charge and a monthly basic service charge, so charging an EV overnight costs the same per kilowatt-hour as charging at any other hour. A time-of-use option exists only on the commercial side, and only on request after VEA completes a feasibility analysis case by case. EV owners on VEA service should plan around a single flat energy price rather than peak and off-peak windows.
VEA offers no residential or commercial EV charger rebate, so there is no rebate to stack with a rate or to enroll in alongside another program. The co-op's main distributed-energy program is net billing for members who install rooftop solar, governed by its long-standing Policy Rule No. 20. That program credits exported solar energy at a rate the co-op sets rather than the full retail rate, and it is separate from vehicle charging; pairing solar with home charging is possible, but VEA does not offer a dedicated incentive for the charger itself.
VEA is a member-owned cooperative, not an investor-owned utility, which shapes how its programs work. It deregistered from Public Utilities Commission of Nevada rate regulation, so rates are set by its elected board rather than a state commission. The territory is large and rural, spanning the Nevada and California line, and VEA is notable as a Nevada co-op that participates in the California ISO. Program offerings here are thinner than at large investor-owned utilities, which is typical for a rural cooperative this size.
Service territory
California
- Inyo
- Mono
Nevada
- Clark
- Esmeralda
- Nye
Sources
- Valley Electric Association, Residential Service Description and RatesRetrieved Jun 2026
- Valley Electric Association, Commercial Service Description and Rates (time-of-use considered on request only)Retrieved Jun 2026
- DSIRE, Valley Electric Association Net BillingRetrieved Jun 2026
Federal and state-level program details are tracked at DSIRE.
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