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CLARKSVILLE, TN – In 2007, the Clarksville Department of Electricity built a fiber optic network across the city, installing new lines to every home and business that would allow remote meter management, faster power restoration and operational efficiencies. The system would also allow the newly re-branded CDE Lightband to offer high-speed broadband internet, voice over IP phone services and IPTV services to residential and business customers.
To make that possible, CDE’s broadband division borrowed $17 million from the electric division, according to a CDE news release.
“It was a daunting task and a challenging time for all of us as we took a giant leap in the investment for our community and started a new business that was very different from our current business model,” CDE Lightband General Manager Brian Taylor said in the release.
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CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Clarksville’s Finance and Budget Committee discussed Monday plans to sell a portion of land at Exit 8 to solar energy provider Silicon Ranch for a 15-megawatt facility.
City Mayor Joe Pitts and CDE Lightband General Manager Brian Taylor said the plan would give the Nashville-based Silicon Ranch a three-year option to purchase 140.2 acres from the city for #3,360,000 for the construction of a 15-megawatt solar farm which would sell electricity to CDE at half the price of TVA.
A map depicting property owned by the city of Clarksville near Exit 8, including a portion being considered for sale to Silicon Ranch for the construction of a solar facility (City of Clarksville)
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