rate base

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

The “rate base,” or the company’s assets on which it is allowed to earn a regulated rate of return—mostly comprised of plants—will increase.

From Barron's

That should add a mild boost to Dominion’s total $65 billion rate base this year to $71 billion next year, according to FactSet, with the Virginia rate base driving the increase.

From Barron's

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

From Salon

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.

From Barron's

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.

From The Wall Street Journal