Despite having more than enough wind and solar potential to cover future growth, TVA doubles down on fossil fuels, building new methane and natural gas plants to lock them in for decades to come
Despite having more than enough wind and solar potential to cover future growth, TVA doubles down on fossil fuels, building new methane and natural gas plants to lock them in for decades to come
Amanda Garcia with the Southern Environmental Law Center writes that TVA's construction of methane gas plants isn't consistent with clean energy.
In the last three years, TVA has built, approved, or proposed eight methane gas plants. This massive, multi-billion-dollar gas spending spree – which is the largest fossil fuel buildout in the country – will worsen the impacts of climate change and force families across the region and customers to pay expensive fossil fuel prices for decades to come. The more than 150 miles of proposed gas pipelines that will accompany the new plants will cut through parts of Middle and East Tennessee, putting dozens of communities, waterways, and ecosystems at risk.
Be a damn shame if some eco “terrorists” (heroes) were to sabotage those plants. Real shame.