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Regulatory Assets and Liabilities (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items] |
Revenue from External Customers by Products and Services [Table Text Block] | TVA’s revenues by customer type for the three and six months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 are detailed in the table below:
Operating Revenues by Customer Type (in millions)
| Three Months Ended March 31 |  | Six Months Ended March 31
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Revenue from sales of electricity |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Local power companies | $ | 2,514 |  |  | $ | 2,564 |  |  | $ | 4,981 |  |  | $ | 4,880 |
Industries directly served | 168 |  |  | 168 |  |  | 353 |  |  | 333 |
Federal agencies and other | 30 |  |  | 31 |  |  | 59 |  |  | 60 |
Revenue capitalized during pre-commercial plant operations(1) | — |  |  | (10 | ) |  | — |  |  | (11 | )
Revenue from sales of electricity | 2,712 |  |  | 2,753 |  |  | 5,393 |  |  | 5,262 |
Other revenues | 38 |  |  | 39 |  |  | 82 |  |  | 79 |
Total operating revenues | $ | 2,750 |  |  | $ | 2,792 |  |  | $ | 5,475 |  |  | $ | 5,341 |
Note (1) Represents revenue capitalized during pre-commercial operations of $10 million and $11 million for the three and six months ended March 31, 2018, respectively. See Note 1 — Pre-Commercial Plant Operations.
Regulatory Assets and Liabilities | Components of regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities are summarized in the table below:
Regulatory Assets and Liabilities
| At March 31, 2019 |  | At September 30, 2018
Current regulatory assets |  |  |
Gallatin coal combustion residual facilities | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 38 |
Unrealized losses on interest rate derivatives | 78 |  |  | 73 |
Environmental agreements | — |  |  | 3 |
Unrealized losses on commodity contracts | 7 |  |  | 4 |
Environmental cleanup costs – Kingston ash spill | 130 |  |  | 266 |
Fuel cost adjustment receivable | — |  |  | 30 |
Total current regulatory assets | 241 |  |  | 414 |
Non-current regulatory assets |  |  |  |  |
Deferred pension costs and other post-retirement benefits costs | 3,000 |  |  | 3,119 |
Non-nuclear decommissioning costs | 1,054 |  |  | 1,019 |
Nuclear decommissioning costs | 856 |  |  | 784 |
Gallatin coal combustion residual facilities | 864 |  |  | 861 |
Unrealized losses on interest rate derivatives | 897 |  |  | 692 |
Environmental agreements | 12 |  |  | 11 |
Unrealized losses on commodity contracts | 7 |  |  | 8 |
Other non-current regulatory assets | 132 |  |  | 118 |
Total non-current regulatory assets | 6,822 |  |  | 6,612 |
Total regulatory assets | $ | 7,063 |  |  | $ | 7,026 |
Current regulatory liabilities |  |  |  |  |
Fuel cost adjustment tax equivalents | $ | 144 |  |  | $ | 146 |
Fuel cost adjustment | 19 |  |  | — |
Unrealized gains on commodity derivatives | 32 |  |  | 41 |
Total current regulatory liabilities | 195 |  |  | 187 |
Non-current regulatory liabilities |  |  |  |  |
Deferred other post-retirement benefits cost | 63 |  |  | 73 |
Unrealized gains on commodity derivatives | 10 |  |  | 31 |
Total non-current regulatory liabilities | 73 |  |  | 104 |
Total regulatory liabilities | $ | 268 |  |  | $ | 291 |

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