TVA Cumberland Coal-Fired Power Plant
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the country. One year ago, MDN told you that TVA is spending over $1 billion to replace six coal-fired plants with natgas-fired turbines (see TVA Investing $1B to Build New Natgas-Fired Electric Plants). Good news! On Friday, TVA recommended moving forward with replacing one of the six--a coal-fired plant located near Cumberland City, Tennessee--with a natural gas combined-cycle power plant. TVA wisely selected natural gas over unreliable, intermittent (and very expensive) solar power.
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