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TVA is looking at how or whether to replace its Kingston Fossil plant with a new source of power.
The utility is focusing on natural gas or solar as future options.
TVA stated on its website that it proposes to retire three of the Kingston Fossil Plant units between 2026 and 2031 and the remaining six units between 2027 and 2033 “dependent on when replacement generation could be constructed and brought online.”
The utility s working on a study and report regarding the different options. At a virtual public meeting last week, TVA officials responded to questions submitted to them.
“Our hope is by the time we release our draft we’ll host an in-person meeting,” said Chevales Williams, TVA s specialist on the National Environmental Policy Act, a federal law that lays out the process TVA follows. TVA stated on its official website that it hopes to have that report and ask for comments on it by late next year.
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In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the excavated sediment into shoreline canals. The largest dredge, a two-story behemoth called the Sandpiper, had pipes wide enough to swallow a push lawnmower. Smaller dredges like Thacker’s scuttled behind it, scooping up excess muck like fish skimming a whale’s corpse. They all had the same directive: Remove the thick grey sludge that clogged the Emory.