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GUEST COLUMN: Environmentalists should be transparent
Cameron Smith, policy director of the Alabama Policy Institute, critiques environmental advocacy groups including SACE for their involvement in PSC rate hearings, arguing they are using populist messaging to advance an anti-coal agenda rather than transparently…
More aging Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants may be shuttered
“We believe that TVA should and will ultimately close many more of its coal units. There are huge environmental and health benefits that come from shutting down these units, but there are also economic benefits of letting those units go rather than spending so much on pollution controls and staffing to keep these old and inefficient plants going”
TVA's Coal Retirement Announcement Signals Big Steps Forward for Clean Energy in the Tennessee Valley
“We applaud TVA's difficult but correct decision to retire these plants from their generation mix. It's the right decision economically, environmentally and for the health and well being of the Valley”
Got a suggestion for TVA? Utility forms 'stakeholder' group to study issues, report to board (photos)
“By bringing a lot of different voices in and having a more robust discussion, I think people will have a higher confidence that you will end up with a better decision”
Good news from the TVA
“signals big steps forward for clean energy in the Tennessee Valley”
SACE blasts Alabama PSC, Alabama Power and rate-setting processes
“The reward schemes the PSC has invented for Alabama Power hurt customers, benefit shareholders, and leave the henhouse unguarded”
Feds to review energy use, the wind blows in Alabama, and Maine offshore makes waves
“Newly updated research shows that Alabama is still high on the list of states with coal plants that may be more expensive to maintain than to replace with cleaner sources, as we noted in an earlier blog. The report, an update of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Ripe for Retirement using 2012 numbers (the most recent available), indicates that 22 coal-fired generators at 7 Alabama plants — most owned by Alabama Power — are more expensive than new wind generated in the Southeast.”
Ala. lawmaker says proposed wind regulations derived from nuisance laws
Alabama state Sen. Phil Williams has proposed S.B. 12, the Alabama Wind Energy Conversion Systems Act of 2014, which would establish statewide permitting requirements and strict noise and setback regulations for wind projects. The Southern Alliance…
Critics blast plan for private financing of TVA's Bellefonte nuclear plant
“are trying to enrich themselves at the expense of TVA ratepayers”
Coal remains king for utilities, but natural gas makes inroads on its market share
A Union of Concerned Scientists analysis titled "Burning Coal, Burning Cash" finds that while coal remains the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation, utilities spent 25% less on coal in 2012 than in 2008, with natural…
40 years after TVA started building Bellefonte in Hollywood, Ala., it faces an uncertain future
“There's a paradigm shift that we need to recognize and it won't take much change in technology or prices to dramatically alter the utility industry”
Do US power companies' carbon pledges add up?
US electric utilities including Southern Company and Duke Energy have pledged net-zero emissions by 2050, but questions remain about whether they can achieve these goals given reliance on fledgling technologies like carbon capture and advanced nuclear.…
TVA mulling private proposal to back Bellefonte nuke project
“While we are eager to see additional coal retirements in our region, we strongly oppose any proposals that would exert uninformed political pressure in an attempt to benefit sub-regions of the TVA service territory and/or personally enrich former board members and political donors”
Alabama Coal Association, environmental groups feud over use of grant money
“It is misleading to represent that Energy Foundation is giving the groups $3 million to fight coal in Alabama. That is factually inaccurate.”