---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-098875"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVA"
cik: "0000104918"
company_name: "AVISTA CORP"
filed_at: "2025-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T00:48:09.174121+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avista issues $120M of 6.18% first mortgage bonds due 2055

## Summary
- Issued $120M principal of 6.18% first mortgage bonds, maturity 2055, via private placement.
- Cash settled $10M notional interest rate swap, netting $1.1M to amortize over bond life.
- Proceeds to repay borrowings under committed line of credit for utility facility construction/improvement.
- Bonds are redeemable at make-whole premium plus accrued interest before maturity.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-098875
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVA
- cik: 0000104918
- company_name: AVISTA CORP
- filed_at: 2025-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104918/000095017025098875/0000950170-25-098875-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104918/000095017025098875/ava-20250723.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-098875
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-098875.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-098875.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  AVISTA CORP incurred mortgage of $120.0 million at 6.18 percent maturing due in 2055.
  - Instrument: mortgage
  - Principal: $120.0 million
  - Rate: 6.18 percent
  - Maturity: due in 2055
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On July 23, 2025, Avista Corporation (Avista Corp. or the Company) issued and sold $120.0 million of 6.18 percent first mortgage bonds due in 2055 pursuant to a bond purchase agreement with institutional investors in the private placement market.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104918/000095017025098875/0000950170-25-098875-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.