November 2, 2024

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)

SEEM
SEEM Opponents Push Back on Supporters’ Claims
SEEM's opponents argued that FERC should recognize the market as a loose power pool and regulate it accordingly.
TVA
TVA Defends Rate Increase for New Gen while Nonprofit Blasts Utility’s ‘Broken Oversight’
The Tennessee Valley Authority is insisting its second rate increase in two years is necessary to build new generation despite the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy condemning the latest hike as clandestine and used to support fossil fuel investments.
Atlas Public Policy/SACE
Report: Southeast Leads US on EV Manufacturing, but Lags on Sales
The Southeast Alliance for Clean Energy's report found that despite being responsible for 40% of all new investments in EV manufacturing, sales in the Southeast range from only 2.5% to 7% of vehicle sales, below the national average.
GE Hitachi and TVA
TVA Resists Congressional Call to Achieve 100% Clean Energy Sooner
The Tennessee Valley Authority doesn’t appear ready to fast-track its decarbonization plans despite receiving a letter this month from 10 members of Congress urging it to chart a path to 100% clean energy by 2035.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Historic Solar Growth Seen in Southeast
The Southeast’s solar capacity will more than double — to 40 GW — by 2026, according to a report by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
TVA
Memphis Turns Down 20-year TVA Supply Contract
The Memphis Light, Gas and Water Board of Commissioners unanimously rejected a 20-year, rolling power supply contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
TVA
SACE Urges FERC Inquiry into Proposed TVA Gas Plant
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy advised FERC that TVA’s justification of a new gas plant construction is faulty, urging FERC to make its own assessment.
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SACE Says Southeastern US Unprepared to Decarbonize
None of the major utilities in the Southeastern U.S. are on track to decarbonized by midcentury or even by 2070, SACE indicated in a recent report.
TVA
Nonprofits Urge TVA to Reconsider Gas-fired Options
Clean energy orgs, nonprofits and social justice groups called on the TVA to reconsider its plan to build a natural gas plant to replace its largest coal plant.
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Southern Co. Takes Heat over SEEM, Opposition to RTO
A Southern Co. official gamely defended the Southeast Energy Exchange Market in a debate at the RE+ Southeast conference with three RTO proponents.

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