rate base

noun

1. a guaranteed minimum amount or number used to compute advertising rates, as the number of subscribers to a publication.

2. a basic amount or number used to compute charges to a customer, as the number of monthly phone calls.

3. the valuation of property upon which tax rates are based.

Example Sentences

“But the truth is they don’t even come close to our rate base.”

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The total rate base growth for utilities will be much lower than that because a chunk of their rate bases are still in the slower-growing residential businesses.

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For National Fuel, the addition of the Ohio business is expected to add significant regulated scale, doubling the company’s gas utility rate base while expanding into the neighboring state of Ohio.

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The amount it would pay, however, is capped on the size of the reimbursement relative to the size of their rate base.

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"We have this rate base that's investable at a higher return than those local distribution companies offer in terms of incremental returns ... that kind of lower return doesn't make a whole lot of sense for us," Armstrong said at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York.

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