Nevada Power
Contact: Sonya Headen
Phone: (702) 367-5222

For Immediate Release

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) has scheduled consumer sessions to allow Nevada Power customers the opportunity to comment on the company's recent general rate case and deferred energy rate case filings. Consumer sessions will be held:

Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 6 p.m.
Richard H. Bryan Elementary School
8050 Cielo Vista Avenue
Las Vegas, NV

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 9 a.m.
Henderson Convention Center
200 Water Street
Henderson, NV

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 6 p.m.
Winchester Community Center
3130 McLeod Avenue
Las Vegas, NV

For more information regarding the consumer sessions please visit our website atwww.nevadapower.com.Headquartered in Nevada, Sierra Pacific Resources is a holding company whose principal subsidiaries are Nevada Power Company, the electric utility for most of southern Nevada, and Sierra Pacific Power Company, the electric utility for most of northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area of California.

Sierra Pacific Power Company also distributes natural gas in the Reno-Sparks area of northern Nevada. Other subsidiaries include the Tuscarora Gas Pipeline Company, which owns a 50 percent interest in an interstate natural gas transmission partnership, several unregulated energy services companies and Sierra Pacific Communications, a telecommunications network development company.