Report
December 11, 2024
Brattle Experts Support Southern Renewable Energy Association with Tennessee Valley Authority IRP Submission
A Brattle team supported the Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA) – a nonprofit regional trade association – in submitting comments to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as TVA finalizes its Draft 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).
SREA’s comments highlight several solution-oriented recommendations for TVA to consider in order to improve its analysis and implement findings into the IRP. These include:
- Model additional sensitivity cases to inform the results of the final 2025 IRP.
- Establish a near-term action plan to provide TVA and its stakeholders a clear path forward for implementing the key findings from the 2025 IRP study.
- Create an annual procurement process for incremental renewable energy and storage resources that targets annual capacity additions at the upper end of the range found to be cost-effective, using the 2025 IRP results as a guide.
- Expand opportunities for customer-specific procurements, including sleeved power purchase agreements (PPAs) and increasing the ability for local power companies and direct serve customers to self-supply.
- Implement improved local and regional transmission planning and generator interconnection processes to reduce the cost and schedule risks of adding new resources to the TVA system.
- Implement reforms to the TVA generator interconnection process to cost-effectively and efficiently utilize available and planned capacity on its system.
- Implement reforms to the TVA generator interconnection process to cost-effectively and efficiently utilize available and planned capacity on its system.
The Brattle team included Principals J. Michael Hagerty and John Tsoukalis, Energy Research Associate Peter Heller, and Senior Energy Analyst Frederick Corpuz.
