Region
127 mentions for region: Mississippi
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“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.”
“TVA has been a leader in the region with wind power. With this expansion, TVA continues to demonstrate that wind technologies are both feasible and desirable for the Southeast”
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…
“TVA has been a leader in the region with wind power. With this expansion, TVA continues to demonstrate that wind technologies are both feasible and desirable for the Southeast”
“He's not spending his money; he's spending our money as ratepayers”
Energy experts and environmentalists, including representatives from the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, urged the Tennessee Valley Authority to significantly expand its renewable energy programs during a TVA-sponsored hearing. John Wilson of SACE advocated for TVA…
“The Southeast has sufficient renewable energy resources to comply with a strong RES. Developing our region's renewable energy potential and meeting an RES will actually benefit the region.”
“We're convinced there is a trend, albeit a limited one, judging by the size of our existing small coal plant fleet, and by the availability of the resource base”
“For anybody who's looking at clean coal as a solution to the 21st century's energy challenges, this is not a good story. For Southern Co.'s shareholders in particular, it's already become a bad story. And the jury is still out as to whether it will be a good or bad story for Mississippi ratepayers.”
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…
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.…
“Whereas the South has been a dead zone on renewables by and large compared to other parts of the country, the potential is great. What's missing is the political will and the policy, and utilities that are willing to rethink their business models and let some of these renewables flourish, instead of being impediments.”
“Nobody in their right mind would order 17 nuclear plants, but TVA did.”
“The greenest electron is one that you never use.”
“We very clearly have a problem more than 22 million people in an eight-state region from North Carolina to Mississippi are exposed to unhealthy levels of ozone pollution, a component of smog”
