There are 6 article(s) tagged Bill McCollum:

• April 2019

  • Coming TVA-MLGW discussion promises to be technical, complex and political

    The landscape of considerations includes a close reading of the city charter, the role of a "balancing authority" and where the electric power comes from.

    By Bill Dries April 05, 2019

• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bellefonte-powered MLGW pitch generates doubts, questions

    The former chief operating officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority wants Memphis Light Gas and Water Division to drop TVA as its electrical power supplier in five years.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2018