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“After the TVA announcement in December about the three units, a lot of people think that Watts Bar has been canceled. Unit 2 is what they are looking at canceling, but not Unit 1. TVA's decision to cancel Unit 2 was good, but they continue to throw a lot of money at Unit 1”
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a pooling agreement to acquire 600,000 tons of emission allowances under the Clean Air Act, drawing criticism from Karl Kurka of the Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition. TVA plans to reduce sulfur…
TVA reversed its decision to close a public meeting of its energy review committee after pressure from the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition and media objections. The committee, part of TVA's Energy Vision 2000 long-range planning…
“I'm not going to back away from the fact that I completely support the rights of those protesters to demonstrate. I strongly believe in this country that that's a right and they should do it.”
“The residential customer who may end up having to foot the bill for TVA's mistakes has no one looking out for them”
This article examines the post-Cold War challenge of disposing of surplus highly enriched uranium stored at the Y-12 weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Department of Energy has decided to "downblend" up to 200 tons…
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…
“TVA has lost sight of its original mission. He says the agency is seeking to dodge congressional accountability by jettisoning nonpower programs and focusing solely on being a power company.”
“the move puts the company's profits ahead of consumers”
“I have long opposed the collection of any fees for advance nuclear cost recovery. Today's decision to approve $142 million is yet another poke in the eye to the customers who may never see anything in return.”
“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”
“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”
“There has always been a loophole and they have just made it much bigger”
“There is a lot of money in that rate structure they've set up, and I think we ought to get the best reductions we can.”
The EPA designated 243 counties nationwide, including 32 Georgia counties, as failing to meet new federal soot (particulate matter) standards. Anne Gilliam of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy expressed disappointment with Georgia's narrower recommendations and…
