TVA IRP Act
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
In Committee
Summary
Public participation in TVA's integrated resource planning is strengthened by creating a permanent Office of Public Participation and formal public processes for TVA's long-term power plans. It also adds resilience and public health to TVA's planning criteria.
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- Local communities and TVA customers gain a formal public comment window that must start no later than 100 days before a draft integrated resource plan. TVA must explain how public input shaped the draft.
- Community groups and intervenors get a dedicated Office of Public Participation to act as a liaison and a 15-day deadline for TVA to respond to discovery requests.
- TVA must produce multi-scenario sales and peak demand forecasts, summarize planned transmission investments, compare demand- and supply-side resource portfolios, and run sensitivity analyses for fuel costs, electrification, distributed energy resources, and other risks. The bill adds the phrases "resilience, extreme weather risk, impacts to public health" to the Energy Policy Act least-cost planning criteria.
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Add Resilience and Health Factors
If enacted, the bill would amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 planning criteria to add "resilience, extreme weather risk, impacts to public health" after the word "dispatchability." TVA planners would then be required to consider these factors when doing least‑cost integrated resource planning.
New Rules for TVA IRP Participation
If enacted, the bill would require new public‑participation rules for TVA's integrated resource planning process. TVA would publish modeling assumptions, including costs and model constraints, at least 100 days before a draft IRP is released. The public comment period would begin no later than 100 days before draft release and end on the last day of the evidentiary hearing. Intervenors could use intervention, discovery, filed comments or testimony, and would get discovery responses within 15 days. The TVA Board would oversee hearings and could approve, deny, or require changes. Each IRP would include long‑term sales and peak demand forecasts, planned transmission summaries, fair evaluations of demand‑ and supply‑side resources, and sensitivity analyses on fuel costs, environmental rules, electrification, distributed resources, and other risks.
New TVA Office for Public Input
If enacted, the bill would create an Office of Public Participation inside the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Office would run outreach, provide technical help, and act as a public liaison for TVA proceedings. It would design and run a public engagement process for TVA’s integrated resource planning within one year after enactment. The TVA Board — not TVA staff — would hire the Office staff.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
TN • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]
TN • R
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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