Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the nation’s largest public utility from replacing a coal-burning power plant in Tennessee with one using natural gas
FILE - Tennessee Valley Authority President Jeff Lyash speaks with the Chattanooga Times Free Press from the TVA Chattanooga Office Complex in Chattanooga, Tenn., April 23, 2019. TVA, the nation's largest public utility, released plans Friday, une 16, 2023, to build a new natural gas plant in Tennessee, largely dismissing renewable energy alternatives one day after the Biden administration proposed strict new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Biden has called for a carbon-pollution-free energy sector by 2035. That's a goal TVA has said it can't achieve withoutin nuclear generation and energy storage. The federal authority has a goal of 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2035 over 2005 levels and net-zero emissions by 2050. On Thursday, Tennessee Valley Authority spokesperson Scott Brooks said the utility followed the environmental law in question.
TVA has said the new gas plants will provide the flexibility needed to add 10,000 megawatts of solar to its overall system by 2035 and still meet peak demand periods.
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