YOUR LOCAL UTILITY WATCHDOG
Nevada families and small businesses don’t get to choose their electric or gas utility. When monopoly utilities like NV Energy and Southwest Gas raise your bills to boost profits, Utility Watch Nevada exposes it.
Utility Watch Nevada calls out corporate greed, rate hikes, wrongful overcharges, and utility actions that put shareholder profits ahead of what is best for you — the customer.
WATCH UTILITIES GET EXPOSEDCalling out rate hikes to fund expensive energy sources.
Exposing monopoly utility greed that sends our bills soaring during heat waves
Uncovering NV Energy’s decades of overcharging customers and refusing to make customers whole.
CUSTOMERS TREATED AS ATMSMonopoly utilities profit when they spend more and charge customers more — so they have every incentive to overbuild, raise bills, and pass financial risks onto you.
Your energy bills can rise even when your usage stays the same because NV Energy and Southwest Gas make decisions that increase costs and shift risk to customers, treating families and small businesses like a guaranteed source of cash.
Energy bills go up when utilities:
Spend hundreds of millions on expensive new methane gas power plants and pipelines instead of cheaper clean energy and energy efficiency
Ask for repeated rate hikes — and get them — even after overcharging customers
Charge customers for corporate perks, lobbying, and luxury spending that have nothing to do with keeping the lights on
Build more energy systems instead of helping people reduce their energy use through weatherization, rooftop solar, and efficiency
Pass fuel price spikes and other financial risks directly to customers instead of managing those risks themselves
Use political and regulatory influence to protect profits and weaken customer protections
Utility Watch Nevada follows the money and exposes patterns of greed, waste, and overcharging that put utility profits ahead of you and your family — and we highlight safer, cleaner options that could lower bills instead.
EXPOSING UTILITY GREED AND BAD BEHAVIOR
Utility Watch Nevada closely watches NV Energy and Southwest Gas, and exposes how their decisions and actions drive up energy bills. When greedy rate hikes, overcharges, and wasteful spending are called out, state regulators, legislators, and the public pay more attention. Oversight creates pressure for these monopolies to rein in wasteful spending, be more transparent, and make better decisions for their customers.
This scrutiny can slow unnecessary spending, challenge risky methane gas projects, and push these monopolies toward lower‑cost options that better protect our wallets — including clean energy solutions like solar, storage, and energy efficiency. When decisions happen in the open, it’s harder for utilities to quietly raise bills or weaken clean energy progress.