The ten members of Congress, along with Shober, criticized the mix of TVA’s generation portfolio and the utility’s continued reliance on fossil fuels. Both suggested that the TVA service area would have been less impacted by Winter Storm Elliott in December if the utility had more contributions from wind and solar.
While 38 of TVA’s 232 generating units were impacted by storm damage like instrumentation freezing over, the utility’s “relatively small amount of solar performed consistently during the storm,” wrote the lawmakers – including Rep. Steve Cohen, Tennessee’s lone Democratic representative.
