Notice2025-08616
Proposed Rate Adjustment, Public Forum, and Opportunities for Public Review and Comment for Cumberland System of Projects
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Published
May 15, 2025
Issuing agencies
Energy DepartmentSoutheastern Power Administration
Abstract
Southeastern Power Administration (Southeastern or SEPA) proposes to revise existing schedules of rates and charges applicable to the sale of power from the Cumberland System of Projects effective for a 5-year period, from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030. Opportunities will be available for interested persons to review the present rates and the proposed rates and supporting studies, to participate in a public forum, and to submit written comments. Southeastern will evaluate all comments received in this process.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 93 (Thursday, May 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20668-20669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08616]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Southeastern Power Administration
Proposed Rate Adjustment, Public Forum, and Opportunities for
Public Review and Comment for Cumberland System of Projects
AGENCY: Southeastern Power Administration, Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice of proposed rate.
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SUMMARY: Southeastern Power Administration (Southeastern or SEPA)
proposes to revise existing schedules of rates and charges applicable
to the sale of power from the Cumberland System of Projects effective
for a 5-year period, from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030.
Opportunities will be available for interested persons to review the
present rates and the proposed rates and supporting studies, to
participate in a public forum, and to submit written comments.
Southeastern will evaluate all comments received in this process.
DATES: Written comments are due on or before August 13, 2025. A public
information and comment forum will be held in-person at Southeastern
Power Administration, 1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia at 1
p.m. EDT on June 17, 2025. There will also be an option to attend the
forum virtually via Microsoft Teams. Persons desiring to attend the
forum should notify Southeastern by June 16, 2025, so a list of forum
participants can be prepared. Persons desiring to speak at the forum
should specify this in their notification to Southeastern; others may
speak if time permits. Notifications should be submitted by email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#94d7fbf9f9f1fae0e7d4e7f1e4f5baf0fbf1baf3fbe2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="75361a1818101b010635061005145b111a105b121a03">[email protected]</span></a>. If Southeastern has not been notified by close
of business on June 16, 2025, that at least one person intends to be
present at the forum, in-person or virtually, the forum may be canceled
with no further notice.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Administrator,
Southeastern Power Administration, Department of Energy, 1166 Athens
Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia 30635-6711; Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3b09c9e9e969d8780b380968392dd979c96dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0e3cfcdcdc5ced4d3e0d3c5d0c18ec4cfc58ec7cfd6">[email protected]</span></a>.
The URL and call in information for the public information and comment
forum is as follows: <a href="https://bit.ly/CumberlandbRatebForum2025">https://bit.ly/CumberlandbRatebForum2025</a>; +1 (404)
796-9216, Access Code: 425290255#.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexa Webb, Acting Power Marketing
Advisor, Southeastern Power Administration, Department of Energy, 1166
Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia 30635-6711, (706) 213-3800; Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#155479706d743b4270777755667065743b717a703b727a63"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0e1ccc5d8c18ef7c5c2c2e0d3c5d0c18ec4cfc58ec7cfd6">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) confirmed and approved on a final basis, Wholesale Power Rate
Schedules CBR-1-J, CSI-1-J, CEK-1-J, CM-1-J, CC-1-K, CK-1-J, CTV-1-J,
CTVI-1-C, and Replacement-3 applicable to Cumberland System of
Projects' power for a period ending September 30, 2025. (FERC Docket
No. EF20-6-000 (Nov. 5, 2020)).
Discussion: Existing rate schedules are predicated upon a March
2020 repayment study and other supporting data. The annual revenue
requirement in this study was $66,150,000 per year. An updated
repayment study, dated March 2025, indicates rates are not adequate to
recover cost increases identified and therefore do not meet repayment
criteria. The revised repayment study demonstrates an annual revenue
requirement increase to $81,750,000 per year will meet repayment
criteria. The increase in the annual revenue requirement is $15,600,000
per year, or 23.58 percent.
Proposed Rates: The rate schedules recover cost from capacity,
energy, and additional energy. The revenue requirement is $81,750,000
per year. The rates would be as follows:
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Cumberland System Rates
Original Marketing Policy
Inside TVA Preference Customers
Capacity and Base Energy: $4.484 per kW/Month.
Additional Energy: 17.088 mills per kWh.
Transmission: Pass-through.
Outside TVA Preference Customers (Excluding Customers Served Through
Duke Energy Progress or East Kentucky Power Cooperative)
Capacity and Base Energy: $4.484 per kW/Month.
Additional Energy: 17.088 mills per kWh.
Transmission: Monthly TVA Transmission Charge divided by 545,000.
Customers Served Through Duke Energy Progress
Capacity and Base Energy: $5.076 per kW/Month.
TVA Transmission: TVA rate at border as computed above, adjusted
for DEP delivery.
East Kentucky Power Cooperative
Capacity: $2.348 per kW/Month.
Energy: 17.088 mills per kWh.
Transmission: Monthly TVA Transmission Charge divided by 545,000.
The referenced repayment studies are available for examination at
1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia 30635-6711. The Proposed Rate
Schedules CBR-1-K, CSI-1-K, CEK-1-K, CM-1-K, CC-1-L, CK-1-K, CTV-1-K,
CTVI-1-D, and Replacement-3 are also available.
True-up Adjustment: The proposed rate schedules would continue
adjustments annually on April 1 of each year, based on transfers of
specific power investment to plant-in-service for the preceding Fiscal
Year, to the base demand charge and base additional energy charge. The
annual adjustment will be, for each increase of $1,000,000 to specific
power plant-in-service, an increase of $0.003 per kilowatt per month
added to the base capacity rate and an increase of 0.013 mills per
kilowatt-hour added to the base additional energy rate. Southeastern
will give written notice to customers of the amount of the true-up by
February 1 of each year.
Legal Authority: By Delegation Order No. S1-DEL-RATES-2016,
effective November 19, 2016, the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) the
authority to develop power and transmission rates to Southeastern's
Administrator; (2) the authority to confirm, approve, and place such
rates into effect on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of
Energy; and (3) the authority to confirm, approve, and place into
effect on a final basis, or to remand or disapprove such rates, to
FERC. By Delegation Order No. S1-DEL-S3-2024, effective August 30,
2024, the Secretary of Energy also delegated the authority to confirm,
approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the
Under Secretary for Infrastructure. By Redelegation Order No. S3-DEL-
SEPA-2023, effective April 10, 2023, the Under Secretary for
Infrastructure redelegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place
such rates into effect on an interim basis to the Administrator,
Southeastern.
Environmental Compliance: Southeastern is in the process of
determining whether an environmental assessment or an environmental
impact statement should be prepared or if this action can be
categorically excluded from those requirements.
Determination Under Executive Order 12866: Southeastern has an
exemption from centralized regulatory review under Executive Order
12866; accordingly, no clearance of this notice by the Office of
Management and Budget is required.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on May 12,
2025, by Virgil G. Hobbs III, Administrator for Southeastern Power
Administration, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of
Energy. That document, with the original signature and date, is
maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance
with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as
an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative
process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on May 12, 2025.
Jennifer Hartzell,
Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-08616 Filed 5-14-25; 8:45 am]
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