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2,441 mentions for advocacy area: Utility Decarbonization
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“The problem is that nuclear power is taking over a billion dollars a year in construction and another half billion dollars a year in operating and maintenance costs and in two and a half years it hasn't produced a single watt of electricity”
“It is a step. We're encouraged that, after some deliberation, Mr. Runyon has decided to open management up to the people of the valley.”
TVA's new John Sevier Combined Cycle natural gas plant near Rogersville, Tennessee marks a significant shift in the utility's generation portfolio, with coal now producing only one-third of TVA's power compared to 52 percent in fiscal…
“You can't come into a community and say, 'Hey, wake up. Look at what's wrong.' You have to learn the community. When you say this is such a backward and slow place, you put people on the fences because you're making them feel right away that they're ignorant and don't care about the community.”
A letter to the editor from Jack Pine of Dunlap, Tennessee, responding to coverage of a public meeting on a proposed pumped storage power plant in Bledsoe County. Pine argues for keeping an open mind about…
“Everything I've learned about the project so far raises a lot of concerns for me”
TVA Director Johnny Hayes testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on his confirmation, promising to protect employee jobs amid a proposal to eliminate the agency's $106 million annual federal appropriation. The proposal aims…
“The industry never really backed off from building new plants”
“They've gotten millions of dollars to upgrade security, but what have they spent it on? Higher fences and better lighting are all things that can easily be overcome by a determined person”
“Mostly why we do it is it's important”
“I think it would be very difficult to keep the rates down, primarily because of the bind that the clear program has TVA in”
“The award, combined with TVA's refusal to provide any factual basis for its decision, raises the question of whether TVA's ratepayers are protected against contractor takeover even after the reforms of the 1986 conflict-of-interest scandal”
TVA Board approved over $80 million for its nuclear power program, with $30 million allocated to the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant. The Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition criticized TVA's continued nuclear investment as diverting resources…
“We were concerned from the beginning for Georgia Power ratepayers. Even if they got this settled, we would find it hard to believe that Georgia Power wouldn't be on the hook for some of the costs. To see that their mediation and whatever else they were doing did not work so early in the project is a big red flag”
“the recommendation puts power company profits ahead of consumers' best interests”
