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Retail Rate Guide Volume I
Retail Rate Guide Volume II
Background
Proper ratemaking remains a cornerstone of electric cooperative financial
strength. Rates also offer a terrific touch point and opportunity for enhancing
member education, discussing the cooperative difference, and establishing
your cooperative as a trustworthy source of information.
Today’s evolving utility marketplace raises important concerns regarding how
electric cooperative rates are structured. New technologies such as advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) and behind-the-meter communications devices
are making new rate designs possible, while advancements in efficiency,
distributed generation and energy storage are challenging the viability of
traditional ratemaking structures. At the same time, electric cooperative
member-consumer preferences are evolving. In many cases, member-consumers
are demanding new services and asking for more control over their
energy use.
To best mitigate risks and advance opportunities, CFC and NRECA offer this
guide, and its companion communications toolkit, Introducing a Rate Change
to Member-Consumers, as a comprehensive resource on ratemaking. Given
the diversity of electric cooperatives, no one-size-fits-all solution exists. The
guide is meant to provide electric cooperatives with a suite of rate options and
considerations that will help you tailor rates to fit your own system needs and
member-consumer preferences.
We hope that this Retail Rate Guide is a valuable resource to America’s Electric
Cooperatives as you navigate a fast-changing industry environment.