TVA votes to retire three coal-fired plants in Tenn. including Rogersville
\n(Bristol Herald Courier © 04/15/2011)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- \nThe Tennessee Valley Authority announced plans Thursday to retire 18 older coal-fired generation units at three power plants as part of the federal utility?s vision of being one of the nat");
document.write("ion?s leading providers of low-cost and cleaner energy by 2020.\nThe retirements will help TVA reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, a component of acid rain, by 97 percent from 1977 levels an...\n
TVA board discusses changes to nuclear reactors
\n(Chattanooga Times Free Press © 04/15/2011) (Registration Required)\n
TVA immediately will add satellite telephones and small portable generators at its three operating nuclear plants, and could within months strengthen power and water supplies to spent fuel pools and speed up the transfer of nuclear waste from pools to dry cask storage.\n\n\nChief Operating Officer Bill McCollum told board members Thursday at a meeting in Chattanooga that reviews after the Japanese nu...\n
TVA, EPA, states settle
\n(Chattanooga Times Free Press © 04/15/2011) (Registration Required)\n
TVA?s board of directors on Thursday approved what they called a historic agreement to settle a 12-year-old string of clean-air lawsuits involving the EPA, four states and three environmental groups.\n\n\nIn the settlement, TVA agreed to idle retire 18 older coal-fired power-generation units at three plants, shutting down the Johnsonville plant entirely and turning the John Sevier plant into a g");
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CDE refuses to attend any city budget hearings
\n(Clarksville Leaf Chronicle © 04/15/2011)
Budget hearings will continue next week for city departments, nonprofits and enterprise funds, but CDE Lightband won?t be among them.\n\nPer emails provided to The Leaf-Chronicle by city spokesman Mark Hicks, CDE officials refused");
document.write(" invitations to participate in the preliminary hearings, which began this week.\n\n?The CDE?s budget will be finalized and adopted by the board in June,? wrote Gina Wilbur, t...\n
UCEMC to raise power rates
\n(Cookeville - Herald-Citizen © 04/15/2011)
UPPER CUMBERLAND -- The Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation's (UCEM");
document.write("C) rates for residential and most general power customers will increase slightly with April meter readings. \n\nThe increase is due to a restructuring of rates by TVA from its \"end-use wholesale billing structure\" to a \"wholesale demand and energy billing structure.\" While the restructuring will be \"revenue neutral\" to T...\n
TVA to retire 18 coal-fired units as ");
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\n(Knoxville News-Sentinel © 04/15/2011) (Registration Required)\n
Based on TVA?s landmark settlement with the EPA, the federal utility is:\n-- Retiring 18 coal-fired units\n-- Losing 300 to 400 jobs\n-- Investing $3 billion to $5 billion on pollution controls\n-- Investing $350 million on clean energy projects\n-- Paying $1 million to the National Park Service and the National Forest Service\n-- Paying a civil penalty of $10 million\n \n \n\n \n Power Grid\n \n \n \n \n\n \n ...\n
TVA to close 18 coal units
\n(Nashville Tennessean © 04/15/2011)
CHATTANOOGA ? The Tennessee Valley Authority made a major shift Thursday toward cleaner air when its board agreed to shut down 18 of its older and dirtiest coal-fired power units, including the entire Johnsonville plant about 60 miles west of Nashville.\n\nIn a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency");
document.write(", four states and three environmental groups, TVA also will provide $350 million ove...\n
Southern Co. CEO: nuclear project remains on track
\n(Valdosta Daily Times © 04/15/2011)
ATLANTA — \n A new nuclear power plant proposed for eastern Georgia would be safer than the existing U.S. nuclear fleet, and the utility building ");
document.write("it plans to proceed despite the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, Southern Co. CEO Thomas Fanning said Wednesday.\n\n\n\n The head of the Atlanta-based electric utility, one of the largest in the country, also criticized attempts by the Obama administrat...\n
TVA adding satellite phones, portable generators at nuclear plants
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TVA will immediately add satellite telephones and small portable generators and could add more dry cask storage and hardened water supply pipes at its nuclear power plants, TVA Chief Operating Officer Bill McCollum said today.\n\n\nThe federal utility is making the changes ? and studying other plant changes ? in response to the earthquake-damaged nuclear plant in Japan. \n\n\nMcCollum told the TVA boar...\n
TVA board re-elects Bottorff as chairman, picks Sansom for vice chairman
\n(Chattanooga Times Free Press © 04/14/2011) (Registration Required)\n
The Tennessee Valley Authority today re-elected Dennis Bottorff as chairman for another year, even though his term on the TVA board could end next month.\n\n\nBottorff, a 62-year-old banker from Nashville, has served as TVA?s chairman for the past year. \n\n\nTVA Director");
document.write(" Barbara Haskew nominated Bottorff for another year as chairman and proposed adding a new vice chairman position in case Bottorff?s su...\n
TVA board to shut down 18 boilers at coal-fired plants, OK?s 20-year strategic plan
\n(Chattanooga Times Free Press © 04/14/2011) (Registration Required)\n
TVA will ");
document.write("shut down 18 boilers at three of its oldest coal plants and pay a $10 million penalty to settle lawsuits involving air pollution from its aging coal plants.\n\n\nBy a split 7-1 vote, the TVA board approved a settlement with regulators to shutter six oldest boilers at the Widows Creek fossil plant in Alabama, and the 10 units at the Johnsonville Fossil Plant and two units at John Sevier plant...\n
Alexander Urges Action On Chickamauga Lock Work
\n(Chattanoogan.com © 04/14/2011)
posted April 14, 2011\n\n \nAt a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee?s Energy and Water Subcommittee, Senator Lamar Alexander on Wednesday urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move quickly on a proposal for increasing revenue to a fund that maintains inland waterways like Chickamauga Lock, saying, ?I?d like to urge you to make it a priority and let us see it as soon as possible.? \n\n ...\n
Plugged In
\n(Memphis Flyer © 04/14/2011)
Anyone who wants in on ECOtality North America's Electric Vehicle Project needs to get the lead out.\n\n\n\"I would encourage any business interested in having a charging station to do it now to take advantage of the grant dollars,\" said Rick Bowker, electric vehicle project manager for Memphis Light, Gas & Water.\n\n\nThe electric");
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TVA at a crossroads
\n(Chattanooga Times Free Press © 04/13/2011) (Registration Required)\n
When TVA managers present the utility?s 20-year energy plan to the agency?s board of directors here Thursday, they are expected to call f");
document.write("or shutting down several of the agency?s dirtiest coal-fired plants in favor of near-term investments in natural gas generation and, over the long term, more nuclear capacity. They are expected to seek only modest additions of renewable and alternative power sour...\n
Editorial: TVA on the move
\n(Memphis Commercial Appeal © 04/13/2011");
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There is no question that the Tennessee Valley Authority needs to progress as quickly as feasible from its heavily coal-dependent electrical generation system. \n\nThe public will have a chance to comment on how fast that conversion should be at a meeting of the utility's board of directors at 7:30 a.m. CDT Thursday in the TVA Chattanooga Office Complex. \n\nAlso on the agenda is a report on nuclear ...\n
TVA time-of-use peak periods defined
\n(Cleveland - Daily Banner © 04/11/2011)
Cleveland and Bradley County households that heed Cleveland Utilities? advice to reduce electrical power usage during peak periods will be those least impacted down the road during a gradual transition to TVA?s new time-of-use rates.\n\nThe new rates took effect April 1 although most area residential customers will not begin to feel an impact for another two to three years.\n\nElectric");
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