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Other Long-Term Assets | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Other Long-Term Assets | Other Long-Term Assets The table below summarizes the types and amounts of TVA’s other long-term assets:
Other Long-Term Assets
| At March 31, 2016 |  | At September 30, 2015
EnergyRight® receivables | $ | 120 |  |  | $ | 124 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net | 153 |  |  | 126 |
Prepaid capacity payments | 48 |  |  | 52 |
Currency swap asset, net | — |  |  | 25 |
Commodity contract derivative assets | 1 |  |  | 1 |
Other | 90 |  |  | 75 |
Other long-term assets | $ | 412 |  |  | $ | 403 |
In association with the EnergyRight® Solutions program, local power company customers of TVA ("LPCs") offer financing to end-use customers for the purchase of energy-efficient equipment. Depending on the nature of the energy-efficiency project, loans may have a maximum term of five years or ten years. TVA purchases the resulting loans receivable from its LPCs. The loans receivable are then transferred to a third-party bank with which TVA has agreed to repay in full any loan receivable that has been in default for 180 days or more or that TVA has determined is uncollectible. Given this continuing involvement, TVA accounts for the transfer of the loans receivable as secured borrowings. The current and long-term portions of the loans receivable are reported in Accounts receivable, net and Other long-term assets, respectively, on TVA’s consolidated balance sheets. As of March 31, 2016 and September 30, 2015, the carrying amount of the loans receivable, net of discount, reported in Accounts receivable, net was approximately $31 million and $32 million, respectively. See Note 8 for information regarding the associated financing obligation.

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