Green
Power Switch® Program
Expands in East Tennessee
July
2, 2002
Green Power Switch is now available to customers of three additional local
power companies in east Tennessee.
Under
the expansion, renewable energy is available to more than 85,000 customers
served by Clinton Utilities Board, Elizabethton Electric System, and Greeneville
Light & Power System.
A
total of 46 local power companies are offering the renewable energy option
to consumers of TVA power across the Tennessee Valley region. Additional
sources of renewable power made it possible to expand the program, which
was developed by TVA, distributors of TVA power and environmental stakeholders.
TVA and the distributors of TVA power are proud to offer consumers
in the Tennessee Valley a choice in the electricity they buy, said
TVA Chairman Glenn McCullough Jr. A reliable, affordable and environmentally
responsible supply of energy is essential to our ability to support and
enhance the quality of life we enjoy.
TVA
provides green power from 12 solar sites throughout the TVA service area,
one wind park in east Tennessee, a landfill gas facility in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, and a methane gas facility at the Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis.
More than 5,600 residential customers and about 258 business customers
are purchasing more than 16,800 blocks of green power.
Green
Power Switch is sold to residential consumers in 150-kilowatt-hour blocks
(about 12 percent of a typical households monthly energy use). Consumers
can buy as many blocks as they like, with each block adding $4 to the
customers monthly power bills. Green Power Switch is also available
to business and industrial customers, who can buy blocks based on the
amount of energy they use.
TVA
is the nations largest public power producer, and its power system
is self-financed. TVA provides power to large industries and 158 power
distributors that serve 8.3 million consumers in seven southeastern states.
Media Contact:
Michelle
Chang, Knoxville (865-632-8108) or TVA News Bureau, Knoxville (865-632-6000)
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