Published June 22, 2026 · Updated September 19, 2026
Henderson data centers are not a line on your NV Energy bill, and nothing the city decided in 2026 changes it. What the rejected moratorium, a pending rate cut, a House-passed ratepayer bill and a new state order each do — and don't — for Green Valley, Anthem and Inspirada.
The 30-Second Version
Henderson data centers do not appear on a Henderson NV Energy bill, and no 2026 Henderson decision changes what you pay — not the July 21 vote against the proposed moratorium, not Google's existing campus. Retail rates are set statewide by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, so the levers that actually move a bill are the general rate case already in effect, NV Energy's pending October 1 fuel-cost cut, and the daily demand charge scheduled for 2027 — the table below sizes each one. The build-out itself is smaller than the debate suggested: one operating data center, one approved-then-abandoned project, and no pending applications. September's federal and state moves (H.R. 9340, Executive Order 2026-005) govern future projects, not this month's bill; solar plus battery, sized against the 2027 rate structure, remains the one lever a household controls.
Only three items on this list change a Henderson NV Energy bill: the general rate case already in effect, the quarterly fuel-cost adjustment NV Energy filed in August, and the daily demand charge scheduled for 2027. Henderson's moratorium decision, Google's existing campus, the abandoned Eldorado Valley project, Executive Order 2026-005 and H.R. 9340 all matter for the next decade of grid cost — but none of them appears on a bill mailed to a Green Valley or Anthem address this year. The reason is structural: NV Energy's retail rates are approved by the PUCN for the whole Southern Nevada service territory, and its Rules 9 and 15 are designed to bill large customers directly for the lines and substations built to serve them. Whether they actually do is the dispute driving September's policy moves.
| Event | Changes a Henderson bill? | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Henderson declines the 180-day moratorium (Bill No. 3927) | No — land use, not rates | Decided July 21, 2026; a code change requiring the agreements was scheduled for the Council's Aug 18 meeting; no data-center applications pending |
| Google's Henderson campus, Warm Springs Road (ground broken 2019) | No line item — large-load service is billed under NV Energy Rules 9 and 15 | Operating; used 352 million gallons of water in 2024 (Nevada Independent) |
| Trammell Crow 157-acre Eldorado Valley project | No | Conditional use permit approved Nov 13, 2025; "no longer moving forward" (Review-Journal, Aug 3, 2026) |
| NV Energy general rate case, Docket 25-02016 | Yes — +10.76%, about $33.10/month for NV Energy's typical residential customer | In effect since Oct 1, 2025; the PUCN approved an undisclosed portion of the request |
| NV Energy quarterly fuel and energy filing of Aug 19, 2026 | Yes, if approved — about −$5.01/month (−3.63%) for a typical single-family home | Filed to take effect Oct 1, 2026; no PUCN order as of Sept 19 |
| Daily demand charge, $0.14 per kW of the day's highest 15-minute peak | Yes, if upheld — NV Energy's estimate is about $20/month for an average customer | Scheduled Jan 1, 2027; two appeals pending at the Nevada Supreme Court |
| Executive Order 2026-005, Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development | Not today — applies to future tax-abatement applications | Announced by the Governor's office Sept 18, 2026, effective on signing; Speed to Power Plan due Dec 31, 2026 |
| H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act | Not today — a House-passed bill, not law | Passed the House 417–3 on Sept 16, 2026; now in the Senate |
Rejected
180-Day Moratorium (Bill 3927) — July 21, 2026
1
Data Center Operating · 0 Applications Pending
−$5.01
Proposed Monthly Cut — Oct 1, 2026 (Pending)
$0.14/kW
Daily Demand Charge — Jan 1, 2027, Appeals Pending
417–3
House Vote on H.R. 9340 — Sept 16, 2026
Quick answer: No. At its July 21, 2026 meeting, the Henderson City Council declined to adopt the proposed 180-day data-center moratorium (Bill 3927). Instead, staff will strengthen the development code and require every future data-center project to sign an individually negotiated development agreement with the city — case-by-case review, not a temporary ban.
In June 2026 the Council voted to advance Bill No. 3927, which would have paused new conditional use permit applications for data centers for 180 days and made Henderson the first Southern Nevada city to do so. On July 21, with roughly 100 residents in the chamber, the Council set the moratorium aside and directed staff to revise the standards every future application must meet: closed-loop cooling, water usage, renewable power, noise, a distance limit from homes and churches, two public hearings, long-term employee counts and backup power. Mayor Michelle Romero framed the development agreement as the tool that lets the Council judge each project on those criteria: "We should say no if someone is not able to meet this criteria," she said at the meeting, as reported by KLAS 8 News Now. Community Development director Eddie Dichter confirmed there were no data-center applications before the Council at the time, and staff scheduled the code change requiring the agreements for the August 18 Council meeting, per the Review-Journal.
The wider picture has not changed since July. Reno remains the only Nevada city with an active data center moratorium, extended through August 31, 2027; Boulder City's Planning Commission denied an AI data center application 6–1 on May 20, 2026 and the city still has a data center question on its November 2026 ballot. Across the valley, Switch's expansion in southwest Las Vegas was approved by the Clark County Planning Commission in June 2026.
One. Google's Henderson data center on Warm Springs Road west of Boulder Highway is the only data center operating inside city limits as of September 19, 2026, and the city says no applications are pending.
The campus began as a 2018 purchase of 64 acres for $19 million by Jasmine Development LLC — a placeholder company that turned out to be Google — and broke ground in 2019 as a roughly 750,000-square-foot facility. Google says it has invested more than $6 billion in Nevada since 2019 across Henderson and its 2021 Storey County site. Because it opened before the Southern Nevada Water Authority's 2023 ban on evaporative cooling, the Henderson campus still uses it: 352 million gallons of water in 2024, about what 2,700 households use in a year, per the Nevada Independent. New Southern Nevada data centers must use closed-loop systems that recycle up to 99 percent of their water.
The only other Henderson project on the books is dead, though its permit is not. On November 13, 2025 the Henderson Planning Commission approved Trammell Crow's application for a 157-acre, five-building campus in the Eldorado Valley on the Desert Hills Shooting Club site — 252,500 square feet per building, air-cooled, about 6.1 million gallons of water a year, power delivery targeted for 2030. In August 2026 city officials and a co-owner of the land told the Review-Journal the project was no longer moving forward; the city says the permit stays in effect through 2030, no additional submittals have been received, and the owners told the city they were looking to sell the land for traditional industrial development. The valley's active growth is elsewhere: Switch's Las Vegas AI campuses, its 300-plus acres at Apex in North Las Vegas, and Vantage's $3 billion NV1 campus — which is in Storey County, in Northern Nevada, not Southern Nevada.
Correction, September 19, 2026: earlier versions of this page described the 64-acre Warm Springs Road site as a separate hyperscale project "under a nondisclosure agreement." That 2018 land purchase became Google's existing Henderson campus, not a second facility. Henderson has one operating data center.
Not as a line item, and not because of anything built in Henderson — but the statewide data-center surge is the main reason NV Energy is spending on new plants and lines, and those costs reach residential rates through PUCN rate cases.
Henderson homeowners pay Nevada Power's Southern Nevada residential rates, which rose 10.76% for the typical residential customer on October 1, 2025 as NV Energy funds what it calls the largest infrastructure expansion in its history. The scale is statewide: NV Energy's 2026 Integrated Resource Plan reports 16,930 MW of formal interconnection requests from 39 prospective large-load customers, roughly twice Nevada's current system peak of about 8,500 MW, and its preferred plan adds 4,370 MW of solar, 5,405 MW of battery storage, 1,223 MW of gas turbines and 180 MW of geothermal, per the filing as reported by KTNV on September 9. NV Energy's Rules 9 and 15 assign interconnection costs to the large customer; the Bureau of Consumer Protection has challenged whether residential ratepayers absorb part of the wider build-out anyway.
NV Energy said in July 2026 that data centers are not what is driving the daily demand charge or its fuel-cost true-ups. Both statements can be true: the charge and the true-ups have their own rationales, while the generation and transmission being built for large loads is what the rate cases are about. For the statewide rate timeline see Las Vegas Data Centers vs. Your Power Bill and Why Is My NV Energy Bill Going Up in 2026?; for outage exposure see Will NV Energy Have Blackouts?; our Las Vegas grid reliability and power outage guide indexes every outage, blackout-risk and backup-power page on this site by date.
Three things, none of which lowers a Henderson bill this month: the U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, the Governor's office announced Executive Order 2026-005 on September 18, and NV Energy's August 19 rate-cut filing is still waiting on the PUCN.
On September 16, 2026 the U.S. House passed H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, 417 to 3. It would have state utility commissions consider large-load standards for data centers drawing 100 MW or more so they pay the full incremental cost of serving them, using existing authority under Section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. "Hardworking families should not have to subsidize the energy demands of data centers," its sponsor, Rep. Gabe Evans, said in the Energy and Commerce Committee's release. The bill now goes to the Senate; it is not law.
On September 18, 2026 Governor Joe Lombardo's office announced that he had signed Executive Order 2026-005, the Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development. A data center seeking a partial tax abatement cannot go before the Governor's Office of Economic Development board unless the developer pays the Local School Support Tax in full and signs a binding Community Support Commitment; at minimum it must meet local water standards, cover the cost of serving the facility without passing it to ratepayers, and not strain the grid during emergencies. The order also commits the state to a Responsible Speed to Power Plan, due December 31, 2026, covering large loads through 2036. "They must pay their share, protect our water resources, keep costs from being passed on to ratepayers, and protect the communities that host them," the Governor's release says. It applies to applications not yet acted on — future projects, not Google's existing campus.
The third item is a rate cut waiting on regulators. On August 19, 2026 NV Energy asked the PUCN to lower Southern Nevada rates from October 1 as fuel and purchased-power costs fell — details in the next section. In the Legislature, an interim committee declined on August 18 to advance a bill draft that would have banned mandatory residential demand charges (Nevada Current), and on August 26 the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Revenue voted 6–2 to draft a 2027 bill ending the state's data-center tax abatements; a bill draft is not a law and the session opens in February 2027.
On paper, the data center does. NV Energy's Rules 9 and 15 bill large customers for the substations and lines built specifically to serve them, and both September policy moves are attempts to make that hold.
The contested part is everything upstream of the customer's own substation — new generation, regional transmission, reserve margin — planned for the whole system and recovered through general rate cases. That is where Nevada's Bureau of Consumer Protection has argued residential customers end up paying, and it is what both September moves target: the executive order makes covering the cost of serving the facility a condition of any abatement, and H.R. 9340 would have state commissions set a large-load standard for customers of 100 MW or more. The separate federal grid-security order, Executive Order 14421, concerns foreign-made equipment in the bulk-power system, not who pays for large-load service. The honest answer for 2026: the rules exist, enforcement is contested, and the new standards govern future projects.
If the PUCN approves NV Energy's August 19 filing as submitted, a typical single-family Henderson customer would pay about $5.01 less per month (−3.63%) starting October 1, 2026. As of September 19 no order has been issued.
The filing is NV Energy's quarterly fuel and purchased-power adjustment — costs passed through with no markup — and would cut the utility's annual revenue by about $100.2 million across all Southern Nevada customer classes (−4.10% combined; −4.04% for multi-family, −3.95% for small general service), according to the company's release as reported by FOX5 Vegas. "As fuel and energy market costs change, these periodic adjustments help make sure customers benefit when those costs decline," NV Energy president and CEO Brandon Barkhuff said. Two things it does not change: the 75%-of-retail credit NV Energy pays for exported solar under tiered net metering, and the $0.14-per-kW daily demand charge still scheduled for January 1, 2027 (full demand-charge guide). A separate energy-efficiency true-up (Docket 26-02035) would add about $0.73 a month for a single-family home and is also pending.
Three things, in this order: audit the bill, model against the 2027 rate structure, and check who you are signing with. The answer depends on your roof, load profile and how long you will stay, but the steps apply across Green Valley, Anthem, Inspirada and the rest of Henderson.
Most of the recent rate growth is in tiered usage — the kWh you consume in the higher pricing brackets — not the base service charge. Pull your last three NV Energy bills and find which charges are driving your total. If it is tiered consumption, solar production addresses it; if it is the coming daily demand charge, battery storage addresses it directly, because a battery covers the short evening peak the charge is measured on.
Installers often quote payback against your current bill. That is incomplete in both directions: a bill can fall (the October 1 filing) and a new charge can arrive (January 1, 2027). Solar that merely breaks even against today's NV Energy rate can be solidly ahead against the rate three or five years out if the statewide build-out continues, and can look worse if the demand charge is struck down. Model both cases with NV Energy's forecast escalation, not a historical average.
A 25-year solar contract is only as good as the installer 25 years from now. SunPower filed Chapter 11 in August 2024, Sunnova's TEP Developer division filed in June 2025, and Freedom Forever filed Chapter 11 on April 15, 2026 and converted to Chapter 7 on August 7, 2026 (see our customer-help guide). Sunrun has been under a Texas Attorney General civil investigative demand since April 2026 (our Sunrun guide has the details). Whoever you sign with, check their financial position first. The federal credit is no longer a homeowner line item either — since January 1, 2026 the Section 48E commercial credit is claimed by the system owner and passed through in subscription pricing; how that works is explained here.
If you rent, expect to move within about three years, or have a north-facing roof shaded most of the day, the data-center story should not push you toward solar — the economics will not close no matter what the PUCN decides.
The same is true if your NV Energy bill is small enough that the fixed basic service charge, not usage, is most of it: solar offsets kWh, not fixed fees. And if the Nevada Supreme Court strikes the daily demand charge, the battery half of "solar plus battery" loses its rate-hedge argument and stands only on backup value. Run the numbers on your own bill; the headlines are context, not a reason.
Did Henderson pass the data center moratorium?
No. At its July 21, 2026 meeting, the Henderson City Council declined to adopt the proposed 180-day data-center moratorium (Bill 3927). Instead, staff will strengthen the development code and require every future data-center project to sign an individually negotiated development agreement with the city — case-by-case review, not a temporary ban.
What was the Henderson data center moratorium, and when did the Council vote on it?
Henderson considered Bill No. 3927, an ordinance that would have imposed a 180-day moratorium on new conditional use permit applications for data centers — which would have made Henderson the first Southern Nevada city to pause approvals. The Council advanced it in June 2026 and took it up at its July 21, 2026 meeting, where it declined to adopt the pause and directed staff to draft stronger development standards and require an individually negotiated development agreement for every future data-center project. Reno remains Nevada's only city with an active moratorium, extended through August 31, 2027, and Boulder City still has a data center question on its November 2026 ballot.
Are Henderson data centers raising my power bill?
Not as a line item. Henderson homeowners pay NV Energy's Southern Nevada residential rates, which rose 10.76% for the typical residential customer on October 1, 2025 to fund the largest infrastructure expansion in the utility's history — driven heavily by statewide data-center demand, not by the one data center in Henderson. NV Energy's Rules 9 and 15 assign interconnection costs to large customers; Nevada's Bureau of Consumer Protection has challenged whether residential customers absorb part of the wider build-out. A daily demand charge is scheduled for January 1, 2027, pending Nevada Supreme Court appeals, and a $5.01-a-month decrease filed August 19, 2026 is pending PUCN approval for October 1.
Which data centers are being built in Henderson?
No new data-center project is moving forward in Henderson as of September 19, 2026. Google operates the city's only data center, on Warm Springs Road west of Boulder Highway (64 acres bought in 2018, ground broken in 2019), and reports more than $6 billion invested in Nevada since 2019. Trammell Crow's 157-acre, five-building Eldorado Valley project won a conditional use permit on November 13, 2025 but city officials and a land co-owner said in August 2026 it is no longer moving forward. The city says no other data-center applications are pending. Switch's expansions are in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, and Vantage's $3 billion NV1 campus is in Storey County, Northern Nevada.
Who pays the electric bill for a data center?
The data center pays its own electric bill at NV Energy's large-customer rates, and under NV Energy's Rules 9 and 15 it is also billed for the substations and lines built specifically to serve it. What is contested is the shared upstream cost — new power plants, regional transmission and reserve capacity planned for the whole system and recovered through general rate cases, which is where Nevada's Bureau of Consumer Protection has argued residential customers end up paying. Executive Order 2026-005 (September 2026) conditions future tax abatements on covering the cost of serving the facility, and H.R. 9340, passed by the U.S. House on September 16, 2026, would have state commissions consider a large-load standard for customers of 100 MW or more.
Does Nevada have a data center law now?
Not a statute yet — an executive order. Governor Joe Lombardo's office announced on September 18, 2026 that he had signed Executive Order 2026-005, establishing the Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development: a data center seeking a partial tax abatement must pay the Local School Support Tax in full, sign a binding Community Support Commitment, meet local water standards and cover the cost of serving the facility without passing it to ratepayers. It applies to abatement applications not yet acted on. Separately, a legislative committee voted 6–2 on August 26, 2026 to draft a 2027 bill ending the state's data-center tax abatements, and the U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act (H.R. 9340) 417–3 on September 16, 2026; neither is law.
Will solar still pay off in Henderson after the federal tax credit ended?
The economics shifted on January 1, 2026, when the Section 25D residential credit ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025 (IRS Fact Sheet 2025-05). The Section 48E commercial credit — which the system owner claims and passes through in subscription pricing — remains available for projects placed in service by December 31, 2027. For Henderson owners the math now depends more on offsetting NV Energy's rate structure than on any federal credit. With a 10.76% increase in effect, a $5.01 decrease pending for October 1, and a demand charge scheduled for January 2027, properly sized solar plus battery positions a home for a known future rate structure. Every property needs individual modeling.
What can a Henderson homeowner do about rising NV Energy rates?
Three steps. Audit your last three NV Energy bills against the 2026 schedules to see which charges are driving your total (usually tiered usage plus the coming demand charge). Model solar plus battery against NV Energy's forecast escalation over 5–10 years, not today's rate — including the case where the October 1 cut is approved and the case where the demand charge is struck down. Verify any installer's financial stability — SunPower (2024), Sunnova's TEP Developer division (2025), and Freedom Forever (Chapter 11 April 2026, Chapter 7 August 2026) all filed for bankruptcy.
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