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TVA’s schizophrenic approach
Posted By katie allison granju
One blogger (and this appears to be a new blog) takes TVA to task for what he sees as too much flip-flopping:
… first it was dam building and flood control with a little fertilizing on the side, then it forgot about hydro (likely dam sites were fewer) and it morphed into coal and other-fired generator plants.
The really big morph came when it was smart for TVA to build 17 nuclear plants, which was not smart at all, and they still are smarting from that colossal mistake.
And they morphed and they morphed until they nearly blew the house down. Ta da! Strategic Plan 2007, which of course, was no plan at all except to build more power plants and sell more electricity per the new CEO Tom Kilgore, “We need to sell more electricity!”
But nobody planned for a drought that had been coming on for years and everybody seemed to forget that all of TVA’s plants, including nuclear, require water and lots of it to keep the turbines turning.
Now, this latest morph, which is in total opposition of its philosophy to “use more electricity”, is to Conserve More Electricity. The whole model of construction for 50 years in the Tennessee River Valley has been to use more (then cheap) electricity for heating home and water and every electrical appliance known to man.
Apr 4th, 2008
