Former TVA chairman blasts TVA for ad promotions during COVID-19 pandemic
Four decades after heading the Tennessee Valley Authority, former TVA Chairman S. David Freeman is joining an environmental group highly critical of the federal agency and is urging TVA's biggest customer to split from America's biggest government utility.
Freeman, a 94-year-old Chattanooga native who has worked as an engineer, attorney and executive for utilities in California, Texas and Tennessee, blasted TVA Wednesday for its current advertising campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Memphis where the city-owned utility is considering a split from TVA.
"In this COVID-19 pandemic, we need this public power entity more than ever, but unfortunately TVA is behaving just like another utility, except they are not regulated," Freeman said. "They are the last monopoly that is not regulated in America and it is heart breaking to watch."
Freeman this week joined the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy as a senior energy advisor and pledged Wednesday to work to help electrify the South while promoting conservation and renewable energy to fight global warming.
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(Chattanooga Times Free Press)
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