Click chart for raw data. Click chart for raw data. In addition to installing limestone scrubbers at three plants, TVA continued to reduce SO 2 emissions by burning low-sulfur coal. Occasionally the coal was co-fired, or burned simultaneously, with natural biomass materials to lower SO 2 emissions even farther. TVA will install eight additional turbines by the summer of 2001 to ensure that it can continue to supply the power needed during peak periods while working toward its SO 2 -reduction goals.
Power production is a big job.
But TVA makes a concerted effort to ensure that the environmental impact of its operations remains as small as possible. Stay Connected Thanks to the solar power array at Gibson County High School in Dyer, Tennessee, students and teachers are learning firsthand about energy produced by photovoltaic modules. TVA strives to find new uses for the by-products of fossil generation. Find out how waste materials become environmentally friendly products . Warming Up to Green Power TVA uses wind and solar power as renewable sources of energy and will soon add landfill gas.