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Issuer:     AVISTA CORP (AVA)
CIK:        0000104918
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-16T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-015443
Event type: regulatory
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Avista files 4-year rate plan with Washington regulator seeking $111M electric, $12M gas hike in 2027
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- Requests $111M electric (+13.9%) and $12M natural gas (+4.7%) base revenue increase for 2027.
- Proposes overall rate of return 7.5%, 48.5% common equity, 10.2% ROE in 2027; rising to 7.67% and 10.5% ROE in 2029.
- Key 2027 cost drivers: $46M electric resource costs, $29M capital additions, $7M employee benefits, $4M wildfire costs.
- Seeks changes to baseline power supply cost calculation and new deferral mechanism for employee benefits costs.
- WUTC has up to 11 months to review and issue a decision on the rate plan.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104918/000119312526015443/0001193125-26-015443-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104918/000119312526015443/ava-20260116.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-015443

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