{"id":3282,"date":"2023-01-03T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:03:13","slug":"power-failures-amplify-calls-for-utility-to-rethink-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Power failures amplify calls for utility to rethink gas<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 A federal utility\u2019s decision to resort to rolling blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s recent decision to double down on fossil fuels.<br \/>\nTVA experienced its highest ever winter peak-power demand on Dec. 23 as an arctic blast brought blinding blizzards, freezing rain and frigid cold from Maine to Seattle. The Tennessee Valley Authority said in an email that a combination of high winds and freezing temperatures caused its coal-burning Cumberland Fossil Plant to go offline at one point when critical instrumentation froze up. A second coal-burning plant, Bull Run, also went offline, TVA spokesman Scott Brooks said in an email, although he did not provide details. The utility \u201chad issues at some of our natural gas units\u201d as well, Brooks said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s coal and gas plants failed us over the holiday weekend. People across the Tennessee Valley were forced to deal with rolling blackouts, even as temperatures plunged into the single digits,\u201d Southern Environmental Law Center Tennessee Office Director Amanda Garcia said in an email. \u201cDespite this obvious failure, the federal utility is still planning to spend billions to build new gas plants and pipelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/power-outages-natural-disasters-storms-tennessee-climate-and-environment-4043b2ce15da10c412078c88c65d50bb\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 A federal utility\u2019s decision to resort to rolling blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s recent decision to double down on fossil fuels. TVA experienced its highest ever winter peak-power demand on Dec. 23 as an arctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2916,3421,3419,1269,1667,3422,3420,2134],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-blackouts","tag-coal","tag-electricity","tag-failure","tag-gas","tag-rolling-blackouts","tag-storms","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}