Solar Valley Coalition
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IREA (Intermountain Rural Electric Association) Voices - organized to reform the rural electric cooperative.
Read about its positions.
Power resellers form group to own plants. Chattanooga Times Free Press. Saturday, July 28, 2007. By Dave
Flessner
Glenn English, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Urges Straight Talk on Climate
Change (3/20/07)
TN Valley Public Power Association worked to defeat the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard. This lobby
group represents TVA customers - distributors.
Read about its positions.
Power resellers form group to own plants. Chattanooga Times Free Press. Saturday, July 28, 2007. By Dave
Flessner
Glenn English, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Urges Straight Talk on Climate
Change (3/20/07)
TN Valley Public Power Association worked to defeat the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard. This lobby
group represents TVA customers - distributors.
Virginia distributor rejoins TVA system. Bristol Virginia Utilities' consultants project TVA-generated power to
be cheaper longterm. Tennessean: 1/3/08
TVA distributors buy most of power plant. Chattanooga Times Free Press. 10/9/08.
TVA sharing asset ownership. Knoxville News Sentinel. 10/7/08
Chattanooga: Distributors to the rescue. Chattanooga Times Free Press. Sept. 16, 2008..
be cheaper longterm. Tennessean: 1/3/08
TVA distributors buy most of power plant. Chattanooga Times Free Press. 10/9/08.
TVA sharing asset ownership. Knoxville News Sentinel. 10/7/08
Chattanooga: Distributors to the rescue. Chattanooga Times Free Press. Sept. 16, 2008..
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Tantalus Technology to Power Johnson City's Smart Grid. Feb. 2 PR Newswire.
"Electric G&T Cooperative Act." PL 475. Passed by the TN General Assembly in 2009.
ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVES: FROM NEW DEAL TO BAD DEAL? REPRESENTATIVE JIM COOPER* Harvard
Journal 2008. This Essay demonstrates that most distribution co-ops have a financial incentive to sell more
electricity, not less. It also shows that co-ops have sought to conceal information from their members—
information to which owners are entitled in other business contexts.
Bill allows state's electricity distributors to pool resources. Tom Humphrey Knoxville News Sentinel.
March 19, 2009
TVA OIG Report - Review of the City of Scottsboro Electric Power Board (Scottsboro, AL) August 2010.
TVA OIG Report - Distributor Review of Murphy Electric Power Board. February 2010.
TVA OIG - Distributor Review of Tullahoma Utilities Board. January 19, 2010
TVA OIG Report: Bolivar Energy Authority – Distributor Review. 2008-12037. October 15, 2009
TVA OIG Report: Distributor Review of City of Oxford Electric Department: 2008-12036. August 31, 2009
Southeastern Power Users Group. A coalition representing large power users dedicated to promoting fair and
equitable utility rates and energy cost savings. “Industry must join together now to stop TVA’s unfair escalation of
industrial rates which has been going on for some time.” 2008.
Powerful battles over electricity in North Georgia. Dave Flessner. Chattanooga Times Free Press.
September 27, 2009
MGLW's EcoBUILD building standard program.
Fitch Affirms Chattanooga Electric Power Board, TN's Electric System Revs at 'AA' April 26, 2010
Smart Grid is coming to MLGW customers You can volunteer to be part of the MLGW Smart Grid
Demonstration. April 2010. Look at what perhaps is TVA's most progressive distributor is doing.
DES proposes local economic incentive for manufacturers. Dyersburg State Gazette. March 30, 2010
Plant Board power transitions continue. Princeton KY Times Leader.February 27, 2010
TVA pilot to test efficiency. Larisa Brass. Knoxville News Sentinel. February 9, 2010
TVA distributors get more time to buy Mississippi power plant. Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times Free
Feb. 10, 2010
ENERGY EFFICIENCY GUIDEBOOK FOR PUBLIC POWER COMMUNITIES. Energy Center of Wisconsin. 2010.
Memphis GLW customer newsletters.
ComEd to test 'smart' ways to cut electricity use Some customers will be able to track hourly consumption, cost
Chicago Tribune. June 21, 2010
Cooper: TVA should allow co-ops to refund ratepayers. City Paper. July 22, 2008.
Clean Energy Ambassadors: Making Clean Energy Work for Consumer-Owned Utilities and Their Communities
Clever video earns Nashville couple energy upgrade. NES contest earns money-saving fixes By Anne
Paine • THE TENNESSEAN • September 1, 2010
EPB rich with cash following rate increase, audit says. Bond issue for smart grid swells cash reserves,
raises inspector questions Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times Free Press. August 19, 2010.
KUB gives nod to TVA programs. By Ed Marcum. Knoxville News Sentinel August 19, 2010
TVA, CU facing cost, power demand challenges RICK NORTON Cleveland Daily Banner July 29, 2010.
EPB gets better control of peaks Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times Free Press August 20, 2011
Nashville Electric Service pursues voltage conservation TVA's new 'demand charge' calls for
'solution on a shoestring' Phil Carson IntelligentUtility Jun 06, 2011
TVA audit forces utility changes Robert Palmer Scottsboro DailyTimes May 23, 2011
Seven States: Do It Right Trumps Doing It Quickly. Update on Seven States Partners. Jack Simmons.
TVPPA. 12/09.
The Rise of the New Power Co-Op Movement. Huffington Post September 28, 2010
Dyersburg Electric's Power Board disagrees with TVA bonuses Dyersburg State
Gazette. December 2, 2011
Groups decry sharing of electricity consumption data Ellis Smith Chattanooga
Times Free Press Nov. 11, 2011
Power Board approves participation in USDA loan, grant program Dyersburg
State Gazette. August 24, 2011