IBEW asks council whether growth will shift electrical infrastructure costs to customers

Oct 14, 2024

During public comment an IBEW representative asked whether new industrial and residential development will require the city to build distribution infrastructure or whether customers and TVA will be expected to provide substations and related facilities.

The full story

During the council’s public-comment period Derek Guy, representing the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), asked city staff whether planned residential and industrial growth on the city’s west side will require the city to fund and build distribution infrastructure or whether the cost and responsibility for substations, switch yards and other delivery facilities will fall to customers or TVA.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in