Green = Deregulation laws/orders in place
Yellow = Not deregulated

Tennessee

Electricity Rates

Residential = 6 cents/kwh (National ranking: 46)

Commerical = 6 cents/kwh
(National ranking: 38)

Industrial = 4 cents/kwh(National ranking: 37)

kwh = kilowatt hour
1st ranking = highest rate in catagory

Deregulation

The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal utility, serves almost all of Tennessee, providing customers with power through local utilities. The U.S. government would therefore be involved in any deregulation of the electricity industry in Tennessee. A commission created by Tennessee's General Assembly in 1997, however, continues to examine deregulation. The Tennessee Regulatory Authority also issued a report in 1999 that looked at issues surrounding restructuring given possible different degrees of deregulation in the future.

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