The Energy Authority^®:
     For Public Power, By Public Power.

Just as deregulation and the wholesale OTC power market emerged in 1996, a group of public power utilities decided to pool their talent, assets and experience to prepare for the challenges ahead. This aggregation of resources formed The Energy Authority.

Today, TEA^® is a vital part of our members' stability in the market—allowing public power utilities to efficiently maintain operations and benefit from state-of-the-art services at a fraction of the usual cost.

TEA assesses market changes, maintains price discoveries and evaluates overall risk with one hand while meeting the daily generation, transmission and natural gas requirements of our members with the other.

We help our members to:

• Obtain the best price when in the market
• Protect against market volatility
• Leverage their assets to transact over much greater distances
• Increase the number of possible trading partners, and consequently
• Realize greater market penetration.

Our sister company, Colectric Partners, provides utilities with key project and business management resources. This helps reduce the utilities' costs and risks in delivering capital projects by leveraging best practices and the intellectual capital that Colectric offers.

We are pleased to share the benefits of The Energy Authority with public power. Take a closer look and see how TEA's services can make a great power company even greater.