TVA blasted for giving up on Wind Power, which it may not have needed anyway.

Environmentalists blast TVA for killing major wind project

One of America's biggest wind energy projects is twisting in the wind, and environmentalists are blaming the Tennessee Valley Authority for the failure of the pioneering $2.5 billion effort to bring more renewable energy into the Tennessee Valley.

From article, (Clean Line Energy Partners, a Houston-based developer of five major transmission lines for wind-generated electricity, has dropped its interconnection agreement with TVA for one of its most promising projects after the federal utility declined to buy what Clean Line officials said would be cheaper and cleaner power for TVA.

The nation's biggest wind generator, NextEra Energy Resources, has bought the Oklahoma portion of the proposed 700-mile-long Plains and Eastern Line to serve Oklahoma and Midwest customers. But for now, plans to bring wind energy from the windy areas of Oklahoma and Texas into the less-windy Tennessee Valley and Southeastern part of the United States are stalled and unlikely to be resurrected for years.

"TVA killed what could have been one of the biggest and most important renewable energy projects in America," said Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in Knoxville. "This was one of the best renewable energy deals in the Southeast and could have brought 3,500 megawatts of clean, renewable power to our region at an extremely low cost — cheaper than what TVA is now paying for its power.")

Me, "What should be pointed out is the TVA for a while now has continually stated it does not need any new electrical power generation. It has enough to power the homes and businesses it provides for."