Just to clarify, Odipsh#t hasn't ordered all coal plants closed, but his EPA cronies have squeezed environmental regulations to the point that it doesn't make economic sense to install the necessary (?) emissions controls on many older, less-efficient coal-fired generating units. TVA will be retiring (and has already started) a sizeable portion of its older coal generating fleet, but they have systematically been replacing much of that with gas-fired turbine and combined-cycle gas/steam generating units. The upside is that gas is presently cheap. The downside is that it isn't going to be cheap forever and it makes little sense to put too many eggs in one basket.
Other utilities across the country are doing the same, possibly to the detriment of reliability on the electric grid. If the economy ever recovers for real, things could be pretty dicey in the power industry.
BTW, who's your power distributor? The idea of 27 cent/KWH power is pretty danged horrible. Especially during the hours when you need to run the AC the most.
BTW, who’s your power distributor? The idea of 27 cent/KWH power is pretty danged horrible. Especially during the hours when you need to run the AC the most.
who’s your power distributor?
http://mountainelectric.com/info/about-mec/history.html
My understanding, this applys to all TVA customers.
You may want to check your are also. They have not published this as well as I think they should’ve . I would not know so much about this subject if not for my son-in law being a Mountain Electric Co-op employee.