FALL SEASON BRINGS POWER RATES DOWN A BIT MORE

ATHENS, Tenn. – With the fall season come falling base power rates.

For Athens Utilities Board (AUB) and its customers, October ushers in the fall season with base power rates that are the lowest of the year.

“This is a great time for our customers looking to save a bit of money on power spending, that’s for sure,” said AUB’s Wayne Scarbrough.

“In the TVA rate scheme, October and November are called ‘transitional’ months.  Their base power rates fall below the summer base rate that we’ve been under since June,” he said.

The AUB residential power rate for October will be $0.08420 per kilowatt hour compared to September’s rate of $0.08794.

“It has been a crazy time with COVID.  We are very happy to see rates staying low,” Scarbrough said.

AUB reminds all customers that while it continues to offer power, water, natural gas, and wastewater services to everyone in the area, its lobby at AUB’s main office remains closed to the public.

“We continue to be very careful.  As I’ve said in the past, you should see a mask on any AUB employee if they are even remotely around another person.  We urge everyone in the area to do the same for their neighbors,” Scarbrough said.

About 83 cents of every dollar that AUB’s power division collects go to TVA for wholesale power.