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This week s heat wave is expected to boost electricity consumption in the Tennessee Valley to one of the highest summertime levels in the past decade, with the heat index topping 100 degrees most every day in Chattanooga.
Seven years after the last of the coal-fired generators were shut down at the Colbert Fossil Plant, the Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to start up three new natural gas combustion turbines at the Alabama plant to help meet its peak power demands across TVA s seven-state region.
As temperatures heat up and power demand grows this summer, an Alabama congressman says he is worried about potential power outages in the Tennessee Valley similar to the rolling blackouts that cut power last December for most of the 10 million electricity users served by the Tennessee Valley Authority.