Utility's appeal will go forward.(business)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Las Vegas Review-Journal

BYLINE: JOHN G. EDWARDS, REVIEW-JOURNAL

CARSON CITY -- A judge rejected a preliminary motion to toss out a Nevada Power Co. appeal of a big cut in its $922 million rate increase request, saying Thursday he wants a full hearing in the case.

Carson District Judge Bill Maddox scheduled an Oct. 17 hearing on the Las Vegas-based utility's bid to get the $437 million that the state Public Utilities Commission slashed from its rate increase request.

Nevada Power advised Maddox that it intends to file a motion to depose people in the attorney general's Bureau of Consumer Protection office and at a power trading company about the way the state agency obtained records of electronic messages about a proposed power purchase.

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