The nation’s largest public utility might not be up to the task of avoiding power failures in extreme weather conditions, a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) claims.
“The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) faces several climate-related risks … expected to affect TVA’s ability to generate and transmit electricity … that could affect TVA’s ability to keep electricity rates low,” the GAO report (pdf) stated. “For example, in 2010, a TVA substation was submerged in over five feet of water when 15 inches of rain fell in two days. TVA relocated the substation to higher ground, at a cost of about $9 million.”…