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Freedom of Information Act Requests

TVA's Buffalo Mountain Wind Power Plant

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• Data for consumed KW and net generation KW, versus time, from beginning of operation to current date.
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• Revenue and expense data for the wind power plant, from construction to current date.
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "The production of wind energy creates no air pollution" (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/wind_faq.htm (archive, 2002), under heading, " What is the role of wind energy (archive 2002) in Green Power Switch?")
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "In fact, an investment of an additional $8 per month on your power bill buys enough Green Power Switch to equal the environmental benefits of planting an acre of trees in the Tennessee Valley." (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/green_mainfaq.htm#3 archive 2002)
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "Together the three turbines are expected to produce some six million kilowatt-hours per year" (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/wind_faq.htm (archive, 2002), under heading, " How much electricity is produced (archive 2002), and will there be more?")
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Quote of the moment

We shall make mistakes, but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principles. I remember that my old school master Dr. Peabody said in days that seemed to us then to be secure and untroubled, he said things in life will not always run smoothly, sometimes we will be rising toward the heights and all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great thing to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 12, fourth inaugural address (Jan. 20, 1945), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). The President reminded Americans that neither winning the war nor making the peace would be easy or without errors, but that they had to keep in mind the broader objectives and the need to try for the best results. ~

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