Opinion: TVA does not invest in West Tennessee
Northcentral Electric Cooperative, which supplies electricity to eastern DeSoto County and western Marshall County in northern Mississippi, implemented rolling blackouts as part of its emergency load curtailment plan with the Tennessee Valley Authority after the winter storm in December 2022. Other public utilities did not have to take such measures. (Beth Gooch/The Daily Memphian)
Jim Gilliland Jr.
Jim Gilliland Jr. has worked 22 years in the project finance and public finance sectors in the municipal bond market and has focused on electric utilities and independent power producers. He is currently in municipal bond investment management at Diversified Trust Co. He is a member of $450 Million for Memphis, which advocates an open bid process for the city’s power supply.
“Heaping praise on power companies that merely do what they are supposed to do is pointless. The now-exposed reality is that TVA is no more reliable than its neighboring utilities.”
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