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3,339 mentions for topic: Energy Policy
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“The issue is complicated, and it's a real challenge because while there are advantages of these clean coal technologies, it's difficult to think about a type of coal refinery right next to a nuclear plant”
“It's a shell game that still requires TVA to pay for cost overruns and delays”
A federal appeals court upheld the EPA's stricter eight-hour ozone standard, intensifying pressure on the Birmingham area which already fails to meet the current one-hour standard. The new regulations, expected to take effect in late 2004,…
A League of Women Voters of Tennessee member recounts participation in Clean Energy Days 2002 in Washington, DC, where SACE and LWV representatives lobbied Congress for a renewable energy portfolio standard. The article discusses the disconnect…
“It seems to me they're not serious about reducing it”
“They're taking an old nuclear reactor that has not operated for 17 years, and they're going to run it longer and harder than it was designed for. It originally had a design life of 40 years, which they want to extend for 20 years, and they want to force it to produce 1,300 megawatts when it was designed for 1,000. It's a prescription for a serious problem.”
“no other utility could get away with doing this – making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation”
“What does Southern Co. want? They want TVA's big industrial customers.”
“Energy efficiency programs, however, could substantially reduce that demand and thus the need for new lines.”
“What is missing is not the technology. It's the political will.”
“TVA's position shortsighted because the agency will need to build new coal plants eventually and coal gasification is an environmentally superior process. He said TVA should be "getting on that learning curve" now.”
“Nobody really knew how wind would perform in this part of the country”
“We are very concerned about a couple of things. We're very concerned that the Bush/Cheney administration is talking about rolling back the Clean Air Act and that TVA has joined with a very powerful group.”
“Nobody really knew how this part of the country could perform in this part of the country. The industry really is getting some legs under it and taking off.”
“They are the only utility in the Southeast that has a program of this size and scale”
