{"id":17370,"date":"2013-11-15T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=17370"},"modified":"2013-11-15T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:41:22","slug":"why-oklahoma-wind-energy-might-get-a-raise-when-tennessee-retires-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/11\/15\/why-oklahoma-wind-energy-might-get-a-raise-when-tennessee-retires-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma Wind Energy Might Get a Raise When Tennessee Retires Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_395\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" alt=\"The 147-megawatt Weatherford Wind Energy Center. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/08\/wind-farm-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Travel Aficionado \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 147-megawatt Weatherford Wind Energy Center.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday announced is would retire six coal-fired power plants in Alabama and replace two in Kentucky with a new natural gas plant.<\/p><p>TVA CEO Bill Johnson cited stricter environmental regulations and a &#8220;flat demand&#8221; for electricity, NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/11\/14\/245235378\/tva-to-close-coal-fired-plants-in-alabama-and-kentucky\">Scott Neuman reports<\/a>.<\/p><p>But the move could be a boon for Oklahoma wind energy, specifically plans for a $2 billion heavy-duty power line that would help close a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/09\/03\/oklahomas-wind-energy-transmission-gap-in-two-images\/\">transmission gap<\/a>, and connect western Oklahoma wind projects with the TVA grid in Memphis. <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/coal-plant-shutdowns-create-market-for-wind-power-project\/article\/3904787?custom_click=rss\">Jay Marks reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TVA provides power for 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. The government-owned utility is looking to diversify its power generating mix, as evidenced by its move away from coal.<\/p><p><!--more-->\u201cThis will support our focus on cleaner energy and bring additional, necessary balance into our portfolio for managing our current and projected load profile,\u201d CEO Bill Johnson told TVA&#8217;s board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday announced is would retire six coal-fired power plants in Alabama and replace two in Kentucky with a new natural gas plant.TVA CEO Bill Johnson cited stricter environmental regulations and a &#8220;flat demand&#8221; for electricity, NPR&#8217;s Scott Neuman reports.But the move could be a boon for Oklahoma wind energy, specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[532,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17375,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370\/revisions\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}