The Tennessee Valley Authority ended the possibility of completing two partially built nuclear units in Alabama on May 5, when its board voted to declare as surplus and for sale the 1,600-acre Bellefonte site. “No large-scale base-load units will be needed for 20 years,” TVA CEO William Johnson told the board. Demand from the federal power producer’s customers set a 20-year record low in December. TVA expects the recently completed 1150-MW unit at Watts Bar,Tenn., to come on line in the summer, he said.

TVA的董事会批准了2011年，一项长期计划称，到2020年需要该能力，这是Bellefonte的一部分建造的一部分，即1260兆瓦的轻水反应堆，估计为49亿美元。但是该部门不包括在2015年计划中，该计划预测电力的需求每年仅增长1％。1988年，在这两个单元上工作（分别为90％和58％）。执行副总裁Sherry Quirk说。她指出，开发人员对该网站表现出兴趣，评估为3640万美元，但需要更多的环境审查。

Gov. Robert Bentley (R) said a private developer is interested in finishing the units but did not identify the company. Michael Dooley, managing partner of Phoenix Energy of Nevada LLC, made an offer to TVA on May 7 to use induction-energy-field technology to generate power at the site. Developing the site will cost about $300 million, he said. TVA seeks, by June 30, interest from renewable-energy firms to provide power by late 2020. TVA’s plans call for up to 800 MW of large-scale solar power by 2023 and up to 3,800 MW by 2033, as well as up to 1,750 MW of wind power by 2033 or earlier, depending on prices. But TVA has not given up on nuclear generation. On May 12, it expects to file permits with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for two or more small modular reactors, up to 800 MW each, at its Clinch River, Tenn., site.