There are 6 article(s) tagged Bellefonte:

• January 2019

  • Bellefonte backers say MLGW rate hikes ‘fork in the road’ for TVA switch

    The CEO of Nuclear Development LLC said Memphis is at a crossroads for a potential shift away from TVA as the city's electrical power supplier with recent rate hikes proposed by MLGW. The coming city council decision on the rate hikes could intersect with the push by Nuclear Development.

    By Bill Dries January 18, 2019

• November 2018

  • Bellefonte backers make MLGW switch to MISO a priority

    The development company with a plan to supply Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division with electrical power from the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant has put that plan on the back burner.

    By Bill Dries November 29, 2018

  • Johnson doesn’t want to consider implications of MLGW switch from TVA

    At $1 billion, the new TVA Combined Cycle plant has been described by Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johnson as a “Rolls Royce Lamborghini” and “the most technically advanced plant in the world.”

    By Bill Dries November 13, 2018

  • TVA head tells City Council Bellefonte power plan ‘risky’

    Tennessee Valley Authority’s leader told the Memphis City Council Tuesday that the cost of activating the Bellefonte nuclear plant in Alabama as a source of electricity for Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division would be “incomprehensible” and come with significant risks.

    By Bill Dries November 07, 2018

• October 2018

  • Sierra Club rips Bellefonte Nuclear proposal

    The Tennessee chapter of the Sierra Club says a proposal to end Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division’s ties to the Tennessee Valley Authority and instead buy electricity from a renovated Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Alabama is “pie in the sky.”

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2018

  • Bellefonte plan swims in political currents

    Memphis City Council members never got a chance to see the video made by backers of a move to make a renewed Bellefonte Nuclear Plant the major supplier of electrical power to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division.

    By Bill Dries October 11, 2018