Green Power Switch Program Achieves Sales Milestone

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Green Power Switch Program Achieves Sales Milestone

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, May. 1 -/E-Wire/-- Green Power SwitchÃ¢ (GPS), a renewable energy program offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority and distributors of TVA power, has reached a key milestone with monthly sales surpassing 30,000 blocks of green power at 150 kilowatt-hours each.

Established on Earth Day 2000, the GPS program has experienced steady growth throughout its six-year history. Today, 8,457 residential customers and 453 businesses across the Tennessee Valley buy almost 55 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy each year.

"The green power purchased each year by GPS subscribers has the environmental impact equivalent to removing about 15,200 cars from the highways for four months or recycling more than 26 million pounds of newspaper," said Jerry Cargile, GPS senior product manager.

TVA and local public power companies, working in cooperation with the environmental community, developed GPS as a way to bring green powerâelectricity generated by cleaner, renewable resources such as solar, wind, and methane gasâto Valley consumers.

GPS is sold through local public power companies to residential consumers in 150-kilowatt-hour blocks (about 12 percent of a typical household's monthly energy use). Each block adds $4 to the customers' monthly power bills. Consumers can buy as many blocks as they like.

In other parts of the country, residential consumers who participate in green power programs pay an extra $2 to $10 per month for green power. TVA also markets GPS to commercial and industrial consumers, who buy blocks based on the amount of energy they use.

The renewable energy sold through the GPS program is generated at Buffalo Mountain Wind Park near Oliver Springs, Tenn.; through co-firing of methane gas at TVA's Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis, Tenn.; and at 16 solar sites throughout the Valley.

TVA is the nation's largest public power provider and is completely self-financing with revenues of $7.8 billion in 2005. TVA provides power to large industries and 158 power distributors that serve approximately 8.6 million consumers in seven southeastern states. TVA also manages the Tennessee River and its tributaries to provide multiple benefits, including flood damage reduction, navigation, water quality and recreation.

Frank Rapley, Nashville, (615) 232-6673

TVA News Bureau, Knoxville, (865) 632-6000

www.tva.com/newsroom

http://www.tva.com/newsroom

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