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Published Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 | 3:01 p.m.
Updated Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 | 5:40 p.m.
A power outage near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway left more than 3,500 NV Energy customers without electricity for more than three hours. NV Energy officials said the power outage occurred around 1:30 p.m. They then sent a tweet through their official Twitter account indicating power was restored around 5 p.m. Officials said there is no indication as to what caused the outage.
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Someone plugged in an electric heater....hee, hee,
NVEnergy will probably want a rate increase to make up for the lost revenue from power that wasn't used.
All those power hungry gadgets at CES or the hackers.
This is just NV Energy's way to telling the Public Utilities Commission that it's time to boost the executive compensation packages.