TVA to build gas plant in East Tennessee
TVA to build gas plant in East Tennessee
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Today at 12:14 p.m.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority will build an $820 million natural gas power plant in East Tennessee in order to comply with a North Carolina lawsuit over air quality.
TVA directors meeting in Young Harris, Ga., agreed Thursday to shift work from a gas plant in Mississippi and another in West Tennessee to building a new plant somewhere north of Knoxville.
The agency is worried it can't meet a federal judge's timetable for installing pollution controls on its John Sevier coal-fired plant in upper East Tennessee by a 2011 deadline. The ruling came in a lawsuit against TVA smokestack emissions blowing into North Carolina.
While TVA is appealing the ruling, the agency has decided to build a gas plant at the eastern end of its system just in case.
Buck
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Today at 12:14 p.m.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority will build an $820 million natural gas power plant in East Tennessee in order to comply with a North Carolina lawsuit over air quality.
TVA directors meeting in Young Harris, Ga., agreed Thursday to shift work from a gas plant in Mississippi and another in West Tennessee to building a new plant somewhere north of Knoxville.
The agency is worried it can't meet a federal judge's timetable for installing pollution controls on its John Sevier coal-fired plant in upper East Tennessee by a 2011 deadline. The ruling came in a lawsuit against TVA smokestack emissions blowing into North Carolina.
While TVA is appealing the ruling, the agency has decided to build a gas plant at the eastern end of its system just in case.
Buck
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I really like the last sentence..."the agency has decided to build a gas plant at the end of its system...."just in case".
For the TVA to spend $820 million dollars is a good sign for the Natural Gas scenario! Thanks for the report.
Keep up the great work that you do for us Buck. Your findings/articles are very informative and I enjoy all of your posts.
Jaybird
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