Thursday, January 29, 2009
By the Way TVA Critic Practicing What He Preaches
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:56 PM
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Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, has been on the biting edge of criticism of TVA since it dumped over a billion gallons of toxic sludge on unsuspecting small town folks in East Tennessee. 
In just about every spill article you read, Smith is good for a snippy and reliably pithy quote on just how irresponsible TVA is and how much this spill actually sucks...which is a lot. Now he can continue to snipe at the hulking federal corporation from heights of relative impunity.
That's because he and his family live in a Knoxville home that will soon have the largest solar array in TVA's Generation Partners--a program to incentivize wind and solar generating facilities.
"Our neighbors already stop and kind of cock their heads. They ask about the panels and it opens up a conversation," said Libby, Smith's wife.
The solar panels should generate around 700-kilowatt hours per month, and any energy they don't use goes back into TVA's energy grid.
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That's because he and his family live in a Knoxville home that will soon have the largest solar array in TVA's Generation Partners--a program to incentivize wind and solar generating facilities.
Ooooh, snap!!!! They told me that when it's installed, ours would be the largest residential solar array.
Could there be a little green-energy one-upmanship at play here? Anyone out there want to keep up with the Beales?
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Southern Beale
on 01/29/2009 at 3:22 PM
