Press Mention Times Free Press May 5, 2021
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Greener vision for TVA phases out coal, electrifies transportation, adds solar and nuclear
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TVA President Jeff Lyash unveiled a strategic plan to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2035 and transition to solar, nuclear, and natural gas. The utility plans to shut down its largest coal plants, including Cumberland and Kingston, while boosting solar capacity 24-fold by 2035 and testing new reactor designs in Oak Ridge. The plan aims to limit greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining stable rates.
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Greener vision for TVA phases out coal, electrifies transportation, adds solar and nuclear
President Jeff Lyash plans to keeps rates stable, boost solar power 24-fold by 2035 and test new reactor design in Oak Ridge
May 6, 2021
by
Dave Flessner
| Updated May 6, 2021 at 11:38 p.m.
Eighty-eight years after the Tennessee Valley Authority was created to harness the power of the Tennessee River, America's biggest public utility is turning to the sun, splitting atoms and natural gas plants to power its future.
The power shift outlined in a new strategic guide endorsed Thursday by TVA directors will phase out coal-fired power generation by 2035 to help limit the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. TVA plans next week to give the required notice to begin the process of shutting down the two-unit Cumberland Fossil plant in Cumberland City, Tennessee - TVA's biggest coal plant - and by July TVA should give notice of its plans to close the nine-unit Kingston fossil plant in Kingston, Tennessee.