Press Mention Chattanooga Times Free Press August 24, 2023
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Opinion: TVA strategically forging its own path, not waving in the wind to critics’ desires
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An opinion piece defending TVA's strategic decisions on energy policy, including its reversal on selling the Bellefonte nuclear plant, plans for new natural gas pipelines, and base rate increases. The author argues TVA is making sensible moves independent of climate-change critics' demands. The article does not mention SACE or any SACE staff.
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Opinion: TVA strategically forging its own path, not waving in the wind to critics' desires
August 25, 2023
by
Clint Cooper
We'll admit to somewhat of an admiration for the Tennessee Valley Authority for forging its own path amid climate change hysteria, for zigging when critics think it should zag, for making sensible moves when its critics think it should take hard turns.
The federal utility has been in the news recently for deciding to keep the unfinished Bellefonte nuclear plant it previously said it would sell, for proposing new natural gas pipelines even as it plans to shut down its last coal-fired power plant and for raising its base rates after it said in 2019 it would freeze its base rates for the next decade.