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453 mentions for topic: Energy Affordability
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TVA critic Stephen Smith, executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, argues that TVA is basing long-range planning on flawed analysis and that deregulation will likely result in significant rate increases for ratepayers. Smith…
“A major debate about TVA's future is happening without oversight or public input. This debate should be happening in a fish bowl for all to see.”
“They felt that a collective voice would be best. People always say there's nothing they can do. There's a general apathy, not just in this area, but in the whole country. But when people come together, they have more self-confidence. We generated support for an 18,000-signature petition to protest the proposed rate increase.”
“Nowhere else can an electric utility board unilaterally raise rates without review and approval of an independent regulatory body”
“such deals grant benefits to industries at the expense of residential ratepayers”
“This is an extremely unfortunate situation for utility customers in Florida who are being forced to pay this `nuclear tax' up front for electricity that will very likely never be produced from proposed new reactors”
“A major debate about TVA's future is happening without oversight or public input. This debate should be happening in a fish bowl for all to see.”
“Valley ratepayers are ill-served by this lack of oversight”
“It was designed to take Congress' attention off the power subsidies (TVA gets), but it didn't work that way”
TVA Chairman Craven Crowell announced that the agency has not yet decided on a rate increase or completion timeline for a cost-of-service study. The article covers a TVA board meeting in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where Crowell also…
“TVA is losing money in part because its gives "sweetheart deals" to certain industries”
TVA's board is expected to decide in late July 1997 whether to raise electric rates for the first time in a decade, with residential ratepayers likely to bear the largest burden. The article discusses TVA's $27.8…
A Tallahassee Democrat editorial endorses a report by the Florida Public Interest Research Group, Florida Public Interest Foundation, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy recommending new energy efficiency standards for appliances and equipment. The editorial…
Cookeville city officials and regional consumer groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, oppose TVA's proposed rate structure that increases residential rates by 7-7.5% while reducing rates for large manufacturers by 2%. The City Council…
“Industry should also pay more because they are the biggest beneficiaries of a cleaner environment. If TVA reduces its emissions, that lessens the likelihood these industries will be in an area of noncompliance (for clean air) and forced to make more costly (pollution) upgrades.”
