Attorney General Aaron Ford Will Take His Fight To Block Demand Charge To The Supreme Court
Attorney General Aaron Ford released the following statement following setbacks at courts in Las Vegas and Carson City:
“The rulings today and yesterday in my lawsuit to block Joe Lombardo’s proposed demand charge price hike are disappointing – but my resolve to protect Nevada families’ wallets is unshaken. I will be appealing these rulings at the Nevada Supreme Court.
"My fight to overturn the demand charge that NV Energy proposed and Joe Lombardo’s appointees approved is bigger than any individual court case. It’s about taking on a corrupt system in which big utility companies and self-interested politicians like Joe Lombardo conspire to keep working people down. While Lombardo continues to rake in fat checks from the utility companies, I will continue fighting to stop them from raising Nevadans’ bills by hundreds of dollars a year.”
BACKGROUND:
The demand charge proposed by NV Energy and approved by Joe Lombardo appointees would levy an additional fee on ratepayers tied to their 15 highest minutes of energy usage per day, raising household energy bills by hundreds of dollars a year—an untenable burden on working families already struggling to make ends meet in the failing Lombardo-Trump economy.
While Ford fights to protect Nevadans from higher energy bills and from getting ripped off by big utility companies, Joe Lombardo rakes in campaign contributions from those very companies.
Lombardo took in a whopping $40,000 from utility companies since the start of 2025—over five times the median amount these utilities gave to other candidates—after Lombardo appointed pro-utility commissioners to the PUCN. Lombardo’s commissioners then voted to raise Nevadans’ energy bills by hundreds of dollars a year with their demand charge price hike.
Ford is running for Governor of Nevada to continue fighting for working families instead of big companies like Joe Lombardo. His ‘Affordable Nevada’ energy plan details how he will work to make affordable clean energy available to Nevadans by investing in solar energy, cutting red tape to get new energy projects off the ground faster, and requiring data centers to pay for their energy usage and grid modernization.