TVA will repay $225 million on debt this year
“They are going to have to get the revenue from somewhere. We have heard from multiple sources that the TVA is going to have to increase the rates this fall. How much is open for question.”
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Public to get chance to weigh in on Duke rate proposal
Duke Energy has filed a petition with the North Carolina Utilities Commission requesting a 6% rate increase to generate an additional $363.5 million in retail base revenues. The public hearing in Burke County on January 15…
misc solar 2003
Article profiles a passive solar home in Tennessee and discusses the potential for active solar adoption among homeowners. SACE staff members Gil Hough and Stephen Smith discuss net metering as a mechanism to make solar more…
2012: The Year of Taxpayer ‘Green’ Waste
“I'm kind of like a market maker in this sector, and it's a good time to be an auctioneer”
Former director was paid to lobby TVA
Former TVA director Johnny Hayes was paid $340,000 in 2001 to lobby his former agency on behalf of Southern Co. and Enron Corp., raising concerns about the revolving door between federal service and private industry. A…
Coalition Pushing Energy Standards
A coalition of consumer and environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, urged Florida to adopt new energy efficiency standards for 10 commercial products. Jim Presswood of SACE argued that the standards would eliminate…
In restructuring rates, TVA breaks ranks with its distributors
“You are in a class by yourselves — (you) don't have to answer to anyone”
TVA rate hike OK'd
“While it is possible under the arcane provisions of the TVA Act for three board members to impose a rate increase without the proper public hearings and third-party rate review in this day and age, it represents bad policy and an undemocratic process of a paternalistic nature. In other words, this decision is not a good move for relationships with people in the valley.”
Travels by TVA Chairman cost ratepayers
“He's not spending his money; he's spending our money as ratepayers”
For most, TVA's electricity rates go up today
“To gouge the residential customer and the small business customer while reducing the rate for large wealthy industrial customers is grossly unfair”
Eliminate Your Electric Bill
Creative Loafing, Muvico Theaters, and Campus.TV hosted free screenings of the documentary "Kilowatt Ours" across Florida locations in November 2008 to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy adoption. The film, which won multiple awards including Best…
Efficiency can help us reach energy independence
Op-ed by Angela Speir Phelps (Georgia Watch) and Jim Powell arguing that energy efficiency is a cost-effective solution to meet Georgia's energy needs and achieve energy independence. The authors cite potential savings of $6.3 billion and…
'Green' homes get green light in N.C.
“If you haven't checked in lately on these things, there is this opportunity for combo incentives where you get anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent off on these high-dollar [upgrades]. They can be amazing. And as electricity rates continue to creep up, these things will become more and more utilized.”
Duke Energy and environmentalists come to terms over energy efficiency
“The compensation mechanism includes a safeguard for customers where Duke's earnings are capped at a certain level that protects customers from paying too much for energy efficiency”
Duke reaches Save-A-Watt settlement
“his group's concern from the beginning was to make sure Save-A-Watt resulted in significant reductions in energy use”