Press Mention Times Free Press January 21, 2020
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Solar farm being built to cut carbon use at Vanderbilt, but study says TVA falling short on energy efficiency
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Vanderbilt University has signed an agreement with Nashville Electric Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority to purchase power from a new 35-megawatt solar farm in Bedford County, developed by Silicon Ranch, to help meet its carbon-neutral goal by 2050. The article notes the headline references a study indicating TVA is falling short on energy efficiency, though the study details are not provided in the excerpt. SACE is not mentioned in the article.
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Solar farm being built to cut carbon use at Vanderbilt, but study says TVA falling short on energy efficiency
January 22, 2020
by
Dave Flessner
| Updated January 22, 2020 at 9:23 p.m.
Vanderbilt University is turning to the sun to help it meet its goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, signing a landmark agreement Wednesday with Nashville Electric Service (NES) and the Tennessee Valley Authority to buy power from a new 35 megawatt solar farm planned in Bedford County.
Nashville-based solar developer Silicon Ranch, which has installed more than 2 million solar modules at farms across the country including at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, will build the solar array for NES. Under the agreement with Vanderbilt, the university will buy the solar-generated power through NES under a unique and more flexible wholesale power arrangement known as the Green Invest program.