TVA's 2007 Strategic Plan-An Opportunity for Change
I have had the pleasure of speaking with a number of you over the last year about TVA's expansion of its transmission system into our peaceful country communities. For some of you, this discussion is very real and present as TVA informed you of its decision to seek your property. Others of you have luckily dodged that bullet and have moved on to living your lives.
I am writing to you today to challenge you to affect change on TVA. Until May 9, 2007, TVA is accepting public comments on its draft strategic plan on its website. A strategic plan is a lot like a retirement plan. We all want to retire someday, and we all have an idea of when we'd like to retire, where we'd like to live and how we'd like to live our lives once we get there. To achieve that plan, we have to allocate our resources appropriately between now and then. That's very similar to the strategic plan that TVA's Board of Directors is developing right now. They're charting the course for their future.
TVA was the leader in energy efficiency and conservation in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In the 1990's however, that changed and TVA's policy on efficiency largely reverted to the early 1970's . And in the 1990's Middle Tennessee began to see building like we've never seen before, continuing right up to present day. Unfortunately, that building was done to efficiency standards of long ago. A lot has changed. This massive building phase in Middle Tennessee without energy efficiency standards, programs, and incentives keeping pace has resulted in TVA seeking expansion of its transmission system into our communities.
I would encourage each of you to spend some time reading the draft strategic plan (links are below) and provide comment to TVA's Board of Directors. I think as you examine the document, you will see TVA has placed very little emphasis on energy efficiency and on the environment. If you agree, be sure to tell them.
How will this change things? The new board is receptive to hearing what we have to say. One need only look to a decision they recently made virtually ending the sale of its public property for private development, largely due to public outcry. If they decide to put a stronger emphasis on efficiency and conservation, it might have an impact on the project in our area. And it will definitely help ensure that other communities have to deal with this less and less.
But Bryan, TVA passed over my property. I don't have the time and I just want to live my life. That's fine and I respect that. But remember this: one of the reasons TVA decided to locate this project in our community was for the vast opportunity for expansion. Which means if you this project doesn't place a transmission line on your property in the next 3 years, you just might have one in 5 years.
TVA's draft strategic plan is at http://www.tva.gov/stratplan/
Comment on it at http://www.tva.gov/stratplan/comments.htm
and remember, the deadline is May 9.
I am writing to you today to challenge you to affect change on TVA. Until May 9, 2007, TVA is accepting public comments on its draft strategic plan on its website. A strategic plan is a lot like a retirement plan. We all want to retire someday, and we all have an idea of when we'd like to retire, where we'd like to live and how we'd like to live our lives once we get there. To achieve that plan, we have to allocate our resources appropriately between now and then. That's very similar to the strategic plan that TVA's Board of Directors is developing right now. They're charting the course for their future.
TVA was the leader in energy efficiency and conservation in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In the 1990's however, that changed and TVA's policy on efficiency largely reverted to the early 1970's . And in the 1990's Middle Tennessee began to see building like we've never seen before, continuing right up to present day. Unfortunately, that building was done to efficiency standards of long ago. A lot has changed. This massive building phase in Middle Tennessee without energy efficiency standards, programs, and incentives keeping pace has resulted in TVA seeking expansion of its transmission system into our communities.
I would encourage each of you to spend some time reading the draft strategic plan (links are below) and provide comment to TVA's Board of Directors. I think as you examine the document, you will see TVA has placed very little emphasis on energy efficiency and on the environment. If you agree, be sure to tell them.
How will this change things? The new board is receptive to hearing what we have to say. One need only look to a decision they recently made virtually ending the sale of its public property for private development, largely due to public outcry. If they decide to put a stronger emphasis on efficiency and conservation, it might have an impact on the project in our area. And it will definitely help ensure that other communities have to deal with this less and less.
But Bryan, TVA passed over my property. I don't have the time and I just want to live my life. That's fine and I respect that. But remember this: one of the reasons TVA decided to locate this project in our community was for the vast opportunity for expansion. Which means if you this project doesn't place a transmission line on your property in the next 3 years, you just might have one in 5 years.
TVA's draft strategic plan is at http://www.tva.gov/stratplan/
Comment on it at http://www.tva.gov/stratplan/comments.htm
and remember, the deadline is May 9.
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