Millions Of Electric Vehicles To Invade US Southeast In Big Decarbonization Push
Politics aside, the Southeastern US is emerging as an epicenter of rapid decarbonization, with electric vehicles front and center.
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New Method Monitors Grid Stability With Hydropower Project Signals
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed an algorithm to predict electric grid stability using signals from pumped storage hydropower projects. The method provides critical situational awareness as the grid increasingly shifts to intermittent renewable power. Hydropower is a renewable energy source directly … [continued]
Agrivoltaics To Save US Farmland From Buildings
Agrivoltaics supporters and emerging farmers join forces with member-owned rural electric cooperatives to push for dual use farmland.
VW & TVA Testing Combined Electric Cars & Electric Aviation
Electric manned aircraft are under development by a number of businesses, although they are still in their infancy. Large planes require too much energy to store using current battery technology for lengthy flights, with the exception of brief hops. Electric aircraft capable of transporting lots of people or large amounts … [continued]
Volunteer State (Finally) Discovers Solar Power — With A Regenerative Twist
A new 70-megawatt solar power and regenerative agriculture project could help propel Tennessee into the renewable energy big leagues.
Ford Seeks Renewable Energy For New EVs In … Tennessee?
Tennessee busts into renewable energy spotlight with new Ford electric vehicle campus and an assist from the TVA.
Friends Of The Earth Blasts TVA Plan For Memphis
For the first time in many years, the TVA is offering to lower electricity prices to its customers by 3% if they will sign a 20-year power purchase agreement. That’s a bad deal, says Friends of the Earth.
Forget The Wall Jobs, What About Bringing Back All Your Coal Jobs?
President* Trump is failing at coal jobs in the southeastern US, but at least he’s creating new wall jobs in Texas and other points west.
TVA Partners With First Solar & NextEra To Build 377 Megawatts Of Solar For Facebook
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed an agreement with US developers First Solar and NextEra Energy Resources to build 377 megawatts (MW) worth of new solar capacity in Alabama and Tennessee to provide 100% renewable energy to Facebook’s Huntsville, Alabama data center.
The Largest Solar Farm In Alabama Is Now Online
The River Bend solar farm in Alabama is now online and contributing about 75 megawatts of electricity to the TVA power grid in seven southern states. Every year, it will keep 100,000 tons of carbon out of the skies over the state.
