NES CEO Contradicts 2024 Annual Report
She Signed Showing $7 Million Cut, Claims
Tree Trimming Budget Increased over Last
Four Years
Posted By: philsner, 2/4/2026 10:25:18 AM
Nashville Electric Service (NES) CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin on Tuesday appeared to contradict the details of the municipally owned utility’s annual report she signed for 2024, which reflects a $7 million cut to its budget for contracted vegetation management, which helped drive a 6 percent decrease to its operating expenses. Instead, the top executive claimed the amount of spending actually increased. Broyles-Aplin was asked repeatedly about the cut reflected in the 2024 report by reporters during a press conference held days after The Tennessee Star first reported the $7 million cut, prompting the apparent denial the company made the cuts it reflected in the report.
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Nashville Electric Service (NES) made the live stream of its Tuesday press conference hosted by YouTube private on Wednesday, leaving the video inaccessible to the general public.
The decision came some time after The Michael Patrick Leahy Show analyzed the claims by CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin on Wednesday morning, concluding the top NES executive appeared to falsely conflate the company’s budgeting for tree trimming and vegetation management with the amount it actually spent.
As The Tennessee Star reported on Tuesday, Broyles-Aplin on Tuesday appeared to contradict the NES 2024 annual report she previously signed, which detailed a $7 million cut to tree trimming expenses helped generate a 6 percent decrease to operating expenses.
Nashville Electric Service (NES) CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin on Tuesday appeared to contradict the details of the municipally owned utility’s annual report she signed for 2024, which reflects a $7 million cut to its budget for contracted vegetation management, which helped drive a 6 percent decrease to its operating expenses. Instead, the top executive claimed the amount of spending actually increased.
Broyles-Aplin was asked repeatedly about the cut reflected in the 2024 report by reporters during a press conference held days after The Tennessee Star first reported the $7 million cut, prompting the apparent denial the company made the cuts it reflected in the report.
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Nashville Electric Service (NES) was discussing internal diversity initiatives even as tens of thousands of customers remained without power following Winter Storm Fern.
On Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, as more than 86,000 NES customers were without power, Pappert reported that a draft board agenda from the Wednesday, January 28 meeting showed NES considering whether to renew a consulting contract focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
“Nashville Electric Service is under scrutiny across the nation because they have up to 90,000 now, people still without power
An agenda published ahead of the Nashville Electric Service (NES) board meeting held on Wednesday includes a contract extension for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant who also appears to work full-time for the municipally owned power company now facing scrutiny as 90,000 homes remain without power days after a winter storm.
Listed in the agenda under recommended purchases and contracts for the Wednesday meeting, the board was recommended to grant a six-month extension to the contract for Tony Williams, who currently provides “Consulting for DEI Projects and Initiatives” for NES.
A letter from Nashville Electric Service (NES) CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin, included as part of the municipally owned power company’s resurfaced Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report for 2024, reveals NES held over 100 training sessions as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.
Broyles-Aplin wrote in her letter, included at the beginning of the 2024 ESG report, “NES’ Human Relations Department implemented Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, & Belonging (DEIAB) trainings,” and ultimately held, “a total of 102 sessions in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024 for both organization-wide education and nuanced resources for leadership positions.”
As the Nashville Electric Service (NES) is currently under scrutiny, with over 100,000 customers without power days after an ice storm swept through the city last weekend, past interviews and public statements by CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin suggest the executive has focused on sustainability, renewable energy, and supporting public transportation since she became the top executive at NES in April 2022.
Broyles-Aplin was spotlighted by Capital Analytics Associates (CAA) last year, when the business insights website highlighted the role of NES in the Choose How You Move transportation referendum successfully championed by Mayor Freddie O’Connell in 2024.
“The city had a lot going on this past year,
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ICE’ Banner 12 replies
State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Tuesday appeared at an anti-ICE protest at the Tennessee State Capitol, where the Democratic lawmaker was captured on video with a banner that read “Abolish ICE,” with activists protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At least one camera captured Jones carrying the banner as he repeatedly stated “Abolish ICE” while the crowd cheered and photographers jostled to snap images. [Snip] The protest in Nashville came one day after an anti-ICE activist in Memphis claimed he was struck by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) vehicle, though law enforcement has debunked the claim.
State Representative Gabby Salinas (D-Memphis) introduced a bill last week that seeks to interfere with the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Tennessee.
House Bill (HB) 1482 would prevent ICE agents from using areas such as public parking lots, vacant lots, public garages, public schools, and religious institution property as a “staging area.”
The bill defines a “staging area” as an “area that is used to assemble, mobilize, and deploy vehicles, equipment, or materials, and related personnel.”
“No child or person should fear being abducted or risk having their family ripped apart when they leave their home,” Salinas said on Facebook. “We are losing friends, neighbors,
State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) announced on Monday that she will not run for Congress in 2026, citing the “unimaginable toll” her special election campaign took on her health last year.
Behn made the announcement less than two months following her December 2 concession speech following her loss to U.S. Representative Matt Van Epps (R-TN-07), when she suggested she may challenge the newly elected Republican during the 2026 midterm elections. Both candidates ran last year to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Representative Mark Green upon his retirement.
“Running for this race was really tough, and after much consideration, I’ve decided to run only for reelection to my State House seat,”
Tennessee Democrats’ ‘F**K ICE’
Post Fuels Organized Obstruction Nationwide,
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said that the Tennessee Democratic Party’s expletive-laden social media post attacking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not an isolated outburst, but part of a broader political narrative that encourages resistance to federal immigration enforcement.
On Wednesday, hours after 37-year old Renee Nicole Good struck an ICE agent with her car in Minneapolis and was fatally shot while trying to flee arrest, the Tennessee Democratic Party posted on social media, “ICE shot and killed a woman today. Plain and simple, no matter how Trump & Republicans try to spin it.”
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