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Press Mention PV Magazine September 30, 2024

SACE Quoted Web article

Groups challenge TVA’s draft resource plan that commits to only 3 GW solar

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Citizens groups, including SACE, have challenged TVA's draft integrated resource plan through 2035, which commits to only 3 GW of solar while planning significant fossil gas expansion. SACE Executive Director Stephen Smith criticized TVA's bias against renewables and failure to model solar-plus-storage as cost-effective, while research director Maggie Shober highlighted modeling deficiencies and lack of transparency. The groups called on TVA's board to narrow the broad portfolio ranges, include long-duration storage, and hold public hearings on the plan.

TVA, with its bias against renewables, did not model solar-plus-storage as a cost-effective dispatchable resource, and proposed future resource portfolios rich in fossil gas that bet on unproven technologies like burning hydrogen and carbon capture

Stephen A. Smith
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