NES Picked as Test Market for TVA Energy Efficiency Program

The Tennessee Valley Authority will use Nashville Electric Service as a test market for offering financial incentives to customers who make efficiency improvements.

Middle Tennessee Electric will also participate in the one-year pilot phase of TVA’s In-Home Energy Evaluation Program. TVA will analyze energy consumption and offer financing options and incentives to help homeowners who invest in the efficiency upgrades. 20 other power utilities across the TVA region will be included in the program which starts this month.

NES is the only provider in Tennessee to test a separate but similar initiative aimed at lowering peak power demand from industrial customers.

TVA began offering do-it-yourself energy audits last year, which helped reduced demand by an estimated 19 megawatts.