August 24th, 2010 () Clean Energy › Dr. Stephen A. Smith › No Comments
Last Friday the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced a new vision for its energy portfolio at their August Board meeting. (We will be blogging on this in more detail soon.)
TVA CEO Tom Kilgore expressed the hope that TVA will become “one of the nation’s leading providers of low-cost and cleaner energy by 2020″. One of [...]
August 24th, 2010 () High Risk Energy, coal › Guest Post › No Comments
SACE is closely following the issue of coal ash waste, and the proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule to finally regulate the toxic by-product of burning coal. To highlight the importance of this issue and the opportunities to get involved, we are re-publishing our national ally 1Sky’s post on coal ash below.
After reading this post, [...]
November 2nd, 2009 () Clean Energy › Sam Gomberg › No Comments
After several months of waiting, President Obama has nominated Neil McBride and Barbara Heskew, both Tennesseans, to fill two of the four vacant seats on the TVA Board of Directors. They now face confirmation by the Senate before they can be appointed and take their seats at one of the more powerful tables in the [...]