TVA IRP Act

HR 6357, the TVA IRP Act, creates a new Office of Public Participation at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to improve public engagement in TVA's planning processes. The bill requires TVA to establish a formal public participation process for its integrated resource planning, including a 100-day public comment period before releasing draft plans and requiring responses to public discovery requests within 15 days. TVA must now include specific elements in its resource plans, such as long-term demand forecasts, transmission investment summaries, and sensitivity analyses for factors like fuel costs and extreme weather. The bill mandates that TVA disclose its modeling assumptions 100 days before draft plan release and document how public input influenced the final plan.