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    #16
    I never remember hearing TVA mentioned on FOX, not to say they haven't, just that I've not seen it, or maybe forgot it... I heard about these rolling blackouts and immediately thought about one of my buddy's friends has been working, demolishing coal fired TVA plants. Of course wondered why, if they didn't have enough capacity to keep things operating normally, would that be happening. First thing I punched in was TVA closing power plants, first thing came up was within past 10 yrs. TVA closes 6 coal fired plants, (and yes I knew they had reasons). OK, pretty simple. Then thought how many new ones went on to replace the ones going out, so I punched in stuff like new power plants for TVA, TVA puts new plants on line, Replacement power plants for TVA within past 10 yrs, several things like that and read bunches pages of info, and the only I found was the new one near Memphis. Trying to find all this stuff gets me so confused... Bob, I've been reading this link for nearly an hr., and never saw the new plant, I read about in Memphis, mentioned anywhere. It said new Watts bar in 1996, then added to it in 2007. It did say they were adding to the Brown's Ferry plant and it should go on line in 2023, but no mention of how much extra elect. any of that will produce. It also said TVA buys appx. 15% of their elect. from someone else, something I would have never imagined. I'd have thought they would produce more than they need and sell to others, I guess not. It also says TVA is capable of producing 35 Gigawatts of elect., then tried to find how many Gigawatts they were capable of back in 1985 and how that capacity had increased or decreased over the yrs. but didn't find that either. I'd bet if I could find the Capacity pr. yr. generated vs amount sold pr. yr. for some of these yrs. it may tell us something about their reserve situation, but had no luck finding that either. All this being looked for and said, I think it will kind'f go back towards to my original statement. TVA doesn't keep as much elect. in reserve (% wise, not Gigabite wise) now as back in 1985. Just glad it didn't do like it did back then, a full week in single digits, and as low as -17 one night, and no rolling blackouts vs this time I think a couple nights below 0, nothing near -17, and a couple of days in single digits.... Still seems to be management... Oh yeah, thanks for that link, sort'f interesting..
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      #17
      Phil - it's called the return key. Use it. It's our friend.
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        #18
        Rob...Return key?? I don't see a return key anywhere on here. Might it be called backspace? I do see one of them.
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          #19
          RETURN was on a typewriter. On your computer keyboard it’s ENTER. Rob wants you to break up your prose into bite sized chunks by adding some spaces. I agree.

          When paragraphs are so large, it tends to make me not want to bother to read it.
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            #20
            Thanks rich, sorry... I get it, That's how I felt reading all of that link Bob had sent, it took forever.
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              #21
              Just saw The head of TVA says they take full responsibility for the rolling blackouts shortage of elect. He said they just weren't prepared. Said the usage was highest it's ever been. Says they will be looking into it to see what to do to assure it doesn't happen again. Hope they realizes, with the exact same storm next yr. they will need more elect. than this year. More growth will always need more elect., under same conditions. Hope the figure what they did wrong.
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