The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proposes to revise the structure of its wholesale electric power rates through pricing that better aligns wholesale rates with the underlying costs to serve wholesale customers. As outlined in the August 2017 rate change letter to local power companies (LPCs), TVA proposes to reduce the standard service energy rates by 1¢ per kWh and establish a grid access charge to recover an equivalent amount of revenue.

On March 9, 2018, TVA released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that reviews the proposed rate change and the potential environmental and economic impacts of the change. The draft EA is available for public review and comment until April 9, 2018.

In the EA, TVA considers a broad range of three potential rate change alternatives. In addition to reviewing its proposal (1¢ per kWh), TVA reviewed an alternative that would apply a smaller energy charge reduction and grid access charge (0.25¢/kWh) and an alternative that would apply a larger reduction and grid access charge (2.5¢/kWh). Each of the rate change alternatives under review in the EA would be revenue neutral for TVA (i.e. they would not change the amount of TVA revenue).

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