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1,515 mentions for region: Tennessee
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“Retiring the coal plants is a major advancement that opens the door for TVA to utilize renewable energy resources such as solar systems, battery storage, and energy efficiency programs, all of which mitigate the threats of climate change while creating millions of well-paying union jobs, rebuilding our country's infrastructure”
Four environmental organizations, including Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, requested that the TVA's Office of Inspector General investigate whether the utility misused ratepayer funds to lobby against federal environmental regulations through the Utility Air Regulatory Group.…
TVA CEO Jeff Lyash called on the federal government to increase support for small modular reactors and other advanced nuclear technologies to help decarbonize the power sector by 2035. Lyash argued that SMRs could provide distributed…
President Biden announced four nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority's board, selecting individuals with clean energy backgrounds. Clean energy advocates, including the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, are calling on TVA to align its carbon reduction…
The Honnold Foundation, Memphis Rox, One Family Memphis, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy have partnered to install a 20-kW solar photovoltaic system at a nonprofit climbing facility in South Memphis. The project will reduce the…
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a net zero emissions target by 2050, but the goal falls short of President Biden's 2035 decarbonization goal and is undermined by TVA's plans to build over 1,500 megawatts of new…
“Florida's a bigger state, bigger population, bigger utilities. They were late to the game, but they have been coming on strong lately once the economics shifted to where solar's the least-cost resource, that's what we would attribute Florida overtaking North Carolina to.”
“The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy said TVA ranks near the bottom among electric utilities in the Southeast for energy efficiency and provided less than 3% as much aid for energy efficiency as the U.S. average in 2019”
A new report commissioned by Nashville business and community leaders finds that the Tennessee Valley Authority's lack of net-zero carbon commitments puts the region at an economic disadvantage compared to cities served by utilities with stronger…
Tennessee's attorney general opposes a motion by four TVA distributors to source power from alternative suppliers via TVA transmission lines, arguing the move would harm most state electricity users by shifting costs and reducing reliability. Although…
“It is absolutely possible to get to 100% clean electricity, and we even have options to how we get there. The biggest key takeaway is we need to start right away.”
Members of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline, Protect Our Aquifer, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and Center for Transforming Communities marched from the National Civil Rights Museum to City Hall to demonstrate support for two ordinances…
Local power companies in Tennessee—including Volunteer Energy Cooperative, Athens Utilities Board, Gibson Electric, and Joe Wheeler EMC—are petitioning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to force TVA to open its transmission lines to allow them to purchase…
TVA announced plans to begin shutting down the Kingston Fossil Plant, a 66-year-old coal-burning facility, with three units retiring as early as 2026 and remaining units by 2033. The utility plans to replace the coal generation…
EPB was recognized as the top utility in the Tennessee Valley for energy savings in 2020, helping customers save over 18.5 million kilowatthours through TVA's EnergyRight program. The article notes that environmental groups, including the Southern…
