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.
As demand for electricity in the United States remains constant or declines, electric cars could become an important new market for utility companies.
Findings from monitoring wells find that coal ash pollution is a problem at dozens of coal fired generating stations. So utility companies want Scott Pruitt to kill the monitoring program.
The US electricity behemoth Tennessee Valley Authority plans to spend $8 billion on clean power in the coming years. That’s going to throw a huge monkey wrench into the incoming Trump Administration’s plans for the fossil fuel industry.
