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Some rural healthcare centers in Kentucky and Tennessee could soon be better prepared for power outages.
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The Kentucky Senate has approved legislation aimed at developing an energy plan for the Commonwealth. Proponents say it’s about electricity reliability.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) saw a near-record peak power demand over the weekend as sub-freezing temperatures continued to impact far western Kentucky, western Tennessee and southern Illinois.
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Climate plans are a part of federal grant competition to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions
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Three new natural gas generating units are online at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant in Muhlenberg County. The units are designed to withstand temperature extremes while also edging the federal utility toward its goal of a carbon-neutral future.
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Only .07% of Kentucky’s net utility generation comes from solar energy — one of the lowest rates of solar energy usage in the country. But in a meeting to discuss the potential of the state’s solar production, lawmakers questioned whether the state is moving too fast on solar.
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The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is undergoing a long federal permitting process to store electricity from the grid in the form of water.
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Kentucky lawmakers are taking steps to bring nuclear power to the state, but the process won’t be quick.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority announced last week that it plans to build a methane gas plant in central Mississippi. This is the eighth proposed fossil fuel plant in just three years.
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Kentucky’s state government and some of the state’s largest cities are both applying for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the growth of solar for low-income and disadvantaged communities.
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In the next few months, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will complete two firsts for the state. The agency will create an inventory of the state’s biggest climate offenders — and then draft a plan to cut that pollution statewide.
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This week the state’s largest power companies got approval to build more solar power, a battery storage facility, and a bunch of energy efficiency programs — all of which push Kentucky toward a greener future.