• Miami-based solar developer Origis Energy, which has built nearly 150 solar farms around the world and is partnering with First Solar to develop 212 megawatts of solar power for Knoxville Utilities Board, said it plans to build a 705-acre solar farm in Obion County in Northwest Tennessee to supply Google facilities elsewhere in Tennessee and Northwest Alabama with solar-generated power. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Similar solar arrays have been built under the Green Invest program to supply renewable power for Facebook, General Motors and Knoxville Utilities Board in the Tennessee Valley. (timesfreepress.com)
  • KNOXVILLE, TN - On Monday, August 11, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), will discuss their joint comments on the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) draft environmental assessment for the Allen coal plant in Memphis. (cleanenergy.org)
  • The TVA Board of Directors is expected to make a decision on the plant's future at its quarterly meeting on August 21 in Knoxville. (cleanenergy.org)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority may still generate most of the power it sells from splitting atoms or burning natural gas and coal, but a growing number of TVA's customers are turning to the sun instead to produce their electricity. (timesfreepress.com)
  • This Tennessee solar milestone is another demonstration of the success of TVA's Green Invest partnership," said Johan Vanhee, Origis Energy chief commercial officer and chief procurement officer. (timesfreepress.com)
  • In the past two years, TVA estimates Green Invest has generated $1.4 billion in economic activity in TVA's service area by helping to land companies like Google and Facebook that want to buy only renewable energy and by enticing more solar energy developers to build within the Valley to supply such customers. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA announced a partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy , Ontario Power Generation and Synthos Green Energy to design a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor that will be used at the TVA's Clinch River Site. (wate.com)
  • The Clinch River Site is part of the TVA's New Nuclear Program , which the TVA board of directors provided $200 million for. (wate.com)
  • I'm proud to support TVA's efforts to bring the next generation of nuclear technologies to Tennessee & America. (wate.com)
  • these included potentially higher electricity rates and potentially adverse impacts on the TVA's power system and its nonpower functions, the management of which is highly integrated under the current TVA. (epi.org)
  • Privatization would sever the connection between most of the TVA's power and nonpower functions, resulting in dis-synergies and impairing and diminishing the various electric power, river and land management, environmental, and economic benefits that the TVA has delivered since the 1930s. (epi.org)
  • STEVENSON, Ala. , June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Tennessee Valley Authority announced today that Google has chosen TVA's Widows Creek soon-to-be retired coal plant site in North Alabama to build its newest data center - the14th across the globe. (prnewswire.com)
  • Joining TVA's President and CEO Bill Johnson and TVA Chairman Joe Ritch in the announcement were Robert Bentley , Governor of Alabama , local and state officials and Gary Demasi , Google Director of Data Center Energy and Location Strategy. (prnewswire.com)
  • Chattanooga, TN - Jonathon Connell, Regional Planner with the Southeast Tennessee Development District recently graduated from TVA's Rural Leadership Institute. (sedev.org)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and DuPont partnered to generate power and steam at TVA's Johnsonville site in Humphreys County, Tenn. (fortnightly.com)
  • The administration recognizes the important role TVA serves in the Tennessee Valley and stands ready to work with the Congress and TVA's stakeholders to explore options to end federal ties to TVA, including alternatives such as a transfer of ownership to state and local stakeholders. (timesfreepress.com)
  • At various times in the Authority's history, politicians have made statements about the desire to divest TVA," Moody's said in its review of the new budget plan and its potential impact on TVA's AAA rating. (timesfreepress.com)
  • said the talk about selling TVA is unnecessary and only threatens to hurt TVA's bond rating and drive up borrowing costs and TVA rates in the region. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA Director Barbara Haskew said the agency is working to improve TVA's financial standing within its current structure. (timesfreepress.com)
  • No state and energy officials in TVA's service territory have yet to take up Obama's offer to work with local stakeholders to transfer TVA to a regional agency under local control. (timesfreepress.com)
  • For the first time in more than six decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority got more power from renewable sources than from burning coal during the first three months of 2020. (driveelectrictn.org)
  • A key piece in President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" vision, the TVA was designed as a large, multipurpose, powerful, well-funded government organization to revive the economically devastated Tennessee River Valley. (heritage.org)
  • WATE ) - The Tennessee Valley Authority made an announcement in Washington D.C. about the future of nuclear energy, alongside leaders from other energy companies. (wate.com)
  • WATE ) - As Tennessee is close to finishing the season, the Vols dropped from No. 5 to No. 9 on The Associated Press Top 25 College Football Poll after losing to South Carolina. (wate.com)
  • The partnership between the Alabama Department of Commerce, Jackson County Economic Development Authority, and TVA helped secure an innovative, global technology company to the Valley. (prnewswire.com)
  • In addition to operating and investing its revenues in its electric system, TVA provides flood control, navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system and assists local power companies and state and local governments with economic development and job creation. (prnewswire.com)
  • The Rural Leadership Institute, developed and sponsored by TVA Economic Development, provides professional leadership training to rural community economic development professionals in the TVA service area. (sedev.org)
  • Rural America's ability to compete, gain jobs, and attract economic investments depends on local leaders being prepared, having product available, and using effective leadership and communication skills to differentiate their community's unique strengths," said TVA Senior Vice President of Economic Development John Bradley. (sedev.org)
  • Based on the success and responses from this and previous classes, TVA Economic Development is planning future institutes. (sedev.org)
  • Rural community economic development professionals located in the TVA region will receive an application if interested in applying for future leadership classes. (sedev.org)
  • To qualify for federal tax incentives for solar generation, the solar generation is being built by private solar companies like Origis and Silicon Ranch and then sold to TVA for distribution to participants in the Green Invest program and other TVA customers. (timesfreepress.com)
  • DENSO, Silicon Ranch Begin Construction for First of Four Tenn. (solarindustrymag.com)
  • Mobility supplier DENSO and Silicon Ranch have broken ground on a new solar facility at DENSO's Maryville, Tenn. (solarindustrymag.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority, Meta (formerly the Facebook company), Jackson Energy Authority (JEA) and Silicon Ranch broke ground on a new 70 MW AC. (solarindustrymag.com)
  • Jack Daniel's has partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Duck River Electric Membership Corp. and Nashville-based solar power producer Silicon Ranch to provide. (solarindustrymag.com)
  • February 14, 2019 - Arconic, a manufacturer of industrial and automotive product, and a direct serve customer of TVA, announced plans to expand its Alcoa, Tennessee operations. (tvasites.com)
  • We felt like we had some conservatism built into the plan, and a really good plan going into the 23rd and 24th," said Henrich, VP of Transmission Operations at TVA. (wkrn.com)
  • In a private-sector environment under strong executive leadership, the assets of the TVA could be worth much more than is implied by its debt-laden balance sheet and costly operations. (heritage.org)
  • Governed and operating like a private company, the TVA is overseen by a board of directors vested with the authority to hire and fire employees and executives (who are not subject to Civil Service laws), make investment decisions, prepare and execute the budget, and oversee all facets of TVA operations. (heritage.org)
  • The TVA operates one of the nation's largest utility systems, accounting for about 3 percent of U.S. electricity capacity (EIA 2013). (epi.org)
  • The TVA, which exists today, is the nation's largest public power provider. (dp.la)
  • The selling off of all or part of the TVA to private ownership would have far-reaching consequences, especially for the 9 million people in the 80,000-square-mile region-encompassing parts of Tennessee, northern Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-to whom the TVA provides electricity and other services. (epi.org)
  • In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was established with the intention of bringing modernization and organization to natural resources and energy to parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. (dp.la)
  • This second branch forked again at modern-day Pigeon Forge, with the main trail turning east en route to Little River and the other branch, known as Indian Gap Trail, crossing the crest of the Smokies to the south and descending into the Oconaluftee area of North Carolina. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Tennessee State Library and Archives website has more information about the people who lost their land to the lakes created by the TVA dams. (visitclevelandtn.com)
  • The TVA was strongly opposed by entities such as the Alabama Power Company, which believed that competitive markets, private-sector businesses, and some federal dams would be a more effective way to deal with the Tennessee River watershed problems. (heritage.org)
  • By 1959, the TVA had achieved its original statutory objective of completing a 650-mile navigation channel the length of the Tennessee River, along with appropriations from Congress to construct dams, build roads, and complete reforestation and reclamation work. (heritage.org)
  • TVA receives no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually all of its revenues from sales of electricity. (prnewswire.com)
  • Although TVA is owned by the Federal government, it does not receive taxpayer dollars and its debt is not taxpayer funded. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The Obama administration is considering whether to divest all or part of the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a means to pay down the U.S. debt. (epi.org)
  • This is a big day for TVA," Bill Johnson said. (prnewswire.com)
  • TVA President Bill Johnson said the agency "will continue to work collaboratively with the Office of Management and Budget" in its review of TVA finances. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority's Regional Energy Resource Council will meet Thursday in Chattanooga and take public comment. (tnadvancedenergy.com)
  • Pedestrians walk past the main entrance to TVA in downtown Chattanooga. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA is preparing a construction permit application for a BWRX-300 at the Clinch River Site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee and exploring additional sites in the TVA service area for potential SMR deployments," reads a TVA press release after the announcement. (wate.com)
  • According to a press release from the TVA about the New Nuclear Program, the program was approved in February 2022 and would oversee a project to prepare an application with for a light-water, small modular reactor at the Clinch River Site. (wate.com)
  • As a cost-sharing participant in the B&W mPower America award, TVA has been conducting site characterization activities for several years at their Clinch River, Tennessee, site. (energy.gov)
  • As TVA continues to develop a cleaner, more diverse energy portfolio, it is reviewing the future of the land and physical structures associated with the retired coal-fired plant units. (prnewswire.com)
  • The new plant will replace three coal-fired units that are being retired as TVA works toward a December 2018 deadline from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce coal emissions. (fortnightly.com)
  • With TVA retiring the last four coal-fired units at Johnsonville by the end of 2017 under its clean-air agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, a new steam source had to be found. (fortnightly.com)
  • Industrial Hygiene Study of TVA Workers in Coal-Fired Power Plants. (cdc.gov)
  • A survey to measure baseline exposure to coal dust, asbestos (1332214), sulfur-dioxide (7446095) (SO2), nitrogen-dioxide (10102440) (NO2) fly-ash (68131748), nitric-oxide (10102439) (NO) sulfites (SO3) sulfates (SO4) and noise was conducted at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal fired power facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • It is difficult to see how divestiture would provide stakeholders with any greater benefits than the TVA system already provides. (epi.org)
  • On Monday, January 11, 2021, several LPCs filed a FPA complaint at FERC against TVA. (cleanenergy.org)
  • In fact, TVA is embracing such customer choices in power sources through its growing "Green Invest" program that allows participating customers to buy only renewable power at rates that pay the costs for such generation. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Under the TVA-sponsored program, customers wanting to get more or all of their electricity from renewable sources sign up for the Green Invest program and get blocks of power generated from solar panels or other renewable sources at rates sufficient to cover the costs of such generation. (timesfreepress.com)
  • To power its data centers in Alabama and Tennessee, Google had already purchased a total of 266 megawatts of power generated by multiple solar farms linked into the TVA electric grid. (timesfreepress.com)
  • It concluded that, although it had "recommended for privatization in other situations in the U.S. Power & Utility Industry," several factors led it to "recommend against pursuing a divestiture of TVA. (epi.org)
  • News 2's Mark Kelly takes a look behind the scenes at TVA to find out what it was like hour-by-hour trying to keep the power on for millions of people. (wkrn.com)
  • Dec. 24th, as many were preparing for Christmas Eve dinner, TVA alerted its 153 local power companies to being a second round of blackouts until noon. (wkrn.com)
  • News 2 investigates Middle Tennessee infrastructure after recent power and water problems have been exposed. (wkrn.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power distributors serving 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. (prnewswire.com)
  • The TVA Allen plant will have the capacity to generate 1,000 MW of power in combined-cycle mode, the equivalent power that would be needed to supply 1 million U.S. homes. (fortnightly.com)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority built a power dam creating a large reservoir, thus flooding a highway which afforded the only reasonable means of access to a large area of mountainous land constituting part of the watershed and lying between the reservoir and a national park. (justia.com)
  • 5. The provisions of the Act show a clear congressional purpose to grant TVA all power needed to acquire by purchase or condemnation lands which it deems necessary for carrying out the purposes of the Act. (justia.com)
  • 6. Neither the fact that TVA wanted to prevent a waste of public funds nor that it intended to cooperate with the National Park Service detracted from its power to condemn. (justia.com)
  • The Obama administration said in its annual budget plan unveiled this month that TVA had achieved its original mission and should now be sold or transferred to state governments or local power cooperatives in the Tennessee Valley to run the 81-year-old utility and service its $25 billion debt. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA electric power was deeply subsidized by taxpayers, providing the TVA with a significant unfair competitive advantage. (heritage.org)
  • A suit was brought before the Supreme Court in 1934 by the Alabama Power Company, charging that the federal government had no constitutional authority to sell electricity from the Wilson Dam as a primary function or for the entire TVA program. (heritage.org)
  • However, the Supreme Court ruled that the TVA could dispose of the power from the dam. (heritage.org)
  • Within a few months, 18 utilities filed another lawsuit that the TVA, under the guise of navigation, flood control, and national defense, was entering into a huge program of power production. (heritage.org)
  • In addition to the TVA, Congress and President Roosevelt established the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in 1935 to provide low-interest Treasury loans to electric cooperatives in order to provide central power station electric service in rural areas. (heritage.org)
  • Last week, TVA announced two 100-megawatt solar farms are being built in the Tennessee Valley to supply renewable energy for Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Google data centers in Bridgeport, Alabama, and Clarksville, Tennessee. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority provides low-cost electricity in seven southeastern states, and provides flood control, navigation, and land management for the Tennessee River system. (usa.gov)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) a corporation owned by the U.S. government provides electricity for business customers and distribution utilities that serve 9 million people in seven southeastern states. (sedev.org)
  • Along with providing the area with low-cost electricity, the TVA also manages natural resources and a wide range of environmental and technical issues. (dp.la)
  • The TVA was selling its hydropower-generated electricity for as much as 60 percent below the price of shareholder-owned utilities in the area. (heritage.org)
  • Legislation to establish the Tennessee Valley Authority was enacted in May 1933, with the U.S. unemployment rate at a record 25 percent, and millions of citizens jobless, homeless, and standing in bread lines for their daily nourishment. (heritage.org)
  • The film dramatizes the story of a battle of wills between the Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old landowners who lost their home and farms to the Federal government. (visitclevelandtn.com)
  • The Council advised TVA on its 2015 IRP, which helped TVA achieve air quality improvement goals and led to the utility's current 55 percent carbon-free portfolio. (tnadvancedenergy.com)
  • The TVA is a corporate agency of the United States, governed by a nine-person board appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. (epi.org)
  • The RERC is a Federal Advisory Committee created by TVA to advise our board and leadership on its energy resource activities. (tnadvancedenergy.com)
  • Today SACE intervened in the docket to ask the FERC to do its own review of the need for TVA to build a new gas plant at Cumberland. (cleanenergy.org)
  • Facebook is building an $800 million data center in Gallatin, Tennessee and a $750 million data center in Huntsville, Alabama. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Contributed photo from the Tennessee Valley Authority / The planned Skyhawk solar farm in Obion County, Tennesee, includes about 300,000 solar panels over 705 acres, according to Origis Energy. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Each organization was represented by leaders, along with politicians including Tennessee Senators Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn, ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United States Marek Magierowski, and Minister of Energy for Ontario Todd Smith. (wate.com)
  • In a snap, TVA lost 20% of its energy generation. (wkrn.com)
  • That night, TVA set an all time winter record for energy use. (wkrn.com)
  • Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker (5) throws a short pass during the first half of the team's NCAA college football game against South Carolina on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr. (wate.com)
  • 1. The condemnation is sustained, since it was for a public purpose authorized by the Act and TVA proceeded in complete accord with the congressional policy embodied in the Act. (justia.com)
  • This article examines congressional and other governmental sources of policy information using an environmental catastrophe, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee, as a case study to illustrate an approach to researching environmental policy information. (istl.org)
  • It occurred on Monday, December 22, 2008 at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee, and is ranked as one of the largest coal ash spills in the United States. (istl.org)
  • Google has built similar $600 million data centers in Alabama and Tennessee. (timesfreepress.com)
  • After a historic win from Tennessee against Alabama, the Vols came in at No. 3 . (wate.com)
  • Google will invest $600 million in this project and will bring quality jobs to northern Alabama and the TVA region. (prnewswire.com)
  • TVA also directly serves large Alabama industrial customers and government facilities. (prnewswire.com)
  • Google chose Tennessee Valley Authority's Widows Creek soon-to-be retired coal plant site in North Alabama to build its newest data center. (fortnightly.com)
  • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and Sen. Richard Shelby are among those urging TVA to sell its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. (wdef.com)
  • Comments released publicly by the Tennessee Valley Authority show Bentley and Shelby along with local officials, some environmental groups and others want the Tennessee Valley Authority to get rid of the facility in northeast Alabama near Hollywood. (wdef.com)
  • Tennessee is 9-2 in their season and still has another game against Vanderbilt in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. (wate.com)
  • Obama's budget planners said they are willing to work with Congress to split up TVA or sell it to state or local governments in the region. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The TVA was to operate (and still does) through physical, economic, and social development and provide low-cost hydropower in the region to outcompete shareholder-owned electric utilities. (heritage.org)
  • LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. ( WHNT ) - Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful (KALB) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will sponsor a Tennessee River cleanup in the areas along southern Limestone County on Saturday, March 25. (whnt.com)
  • By encouraging solar facilities to be built anywhere in the Valley to help meet that demand, TVA also is helping to create jobs at solar farms often built in rural, less developed areas where land is cheaper and the need for jobs is greater than other areas. (timesfreepress.com)
  • WKRN) - Tennessee Valley Authority described December's arctic blast as a battle with Mother Nature. (wkrn.com)
  • The settlement requires the Tennessee Valley Authority to remove approximately 12 million cubic yards of coal combustion residuals from its active coal ash ponds at the Gallatin Fossil Plant, closing the coal ash pond complex and remediating the area in accordance with state law. (eponline.com)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority director visits the site of the Aurora Dam. (dp.la)
  • From the New Deal to a New Century," Tennessee Valley Authority. (dp.la)
  • During the Revolutionary War , the Cherokee, who had aligned themselves with the British, launched sporadic attacks against the sparse settlements in the Tennessee Valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • GE received an order from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to supply two high-efficiency 7HA.02 gas turbine generators for the new combined-cycle Allen plant. (fortnightly.com)
  • The United States instituted proceedings under the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to condemn certain land. (justia.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) says the new 70 MW solar facility in Madison County, Tenn. (solarindustrymag.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority would probably lose its favorable borrowing authority if it gives up ownership by Uncle Sam, but bond rating agencies are discounting the chance of the federal government selling TVA and are sticking with their top AAA-rating for the federal utility. (timesfreepress.com)
  • We live, work and play right here in the Tennessee Valley. (wdef.com)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has had 80 years of independence from the oversight, review, and budgetary control of a more traditional federal agency, as well as from the rigors of operating as a private shareholder-owned utility. (heritage.org)
  • To date, there are no open/active SEC petitions from Tennessee Valley Authority. (cdc.gov)
  • TVA completed repairs and is wrapping up the cleanup process from the construction. (newsbreak.com)
  • The most effective way to restore efficiency to the TVA system is to sell its assets via a competitive auction and bring it under the rigors of market forces and public utility regulation. (heritage.org)
  • After its station stop IC's northbound "City of New Orleans" winds its way out of Memphis, Tenn. (railpictures.net)
  • The main branch crossed the French Broad and continued along Dumplin Creek to the Nolichucky basin in northeastern Tennessee. (wikipedia.org)
  • TVA currently has 23 primary data center sites available across its seven-state service area. (prnewswire.com)
  • A retaining wall failed, releasing approximately 5.4 million cubic feet of coal ash into the Clinch and Emory rivers and on to the surrounding ground surface areas ( Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation 2008 ). (istl.org)
  • EMPOWER TN Workplace Charging launches assistance program. (driveelectrictn.org)
  • After lengthy consideration of all public and private interests, it was agreed between the national, state, and county authorities that the best solution of the problem was for TVA to acquire all land in the isolated area and add it to the national park, making satisfactory financial adjustments with all interests, public and private, and reserving all rights required to carry out the TVA program. (justia.com)
  • KALB and TVA will provide breakfast and supplies like trash bags, mesh bags, litter grabbers, gloves, safety vests and buckets. (whnt.com)
  • There is a very high likelihood the U.S. government would provide extraordinary support to TVA in the event of financial distress," S&P said in its most recent review of TVA. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA committed to repairing this dam right, understanding the serious impact on local businesses and property owners with the extended draw-down time of the lake for repairs. (newsbreak.com)
  • TVA worked with the community as much as possible to alleviate some issues during the draw-down, such as new ramp extensions, a new swim beach, and other activities to allow local residents to enjoy the water as work continued on the dam. (newsbreak.com)
  • The TVA Coal Ash Spill disaster serves as a practical context for this study, from its initial occurrence through examination of the responses of many agencies, including the development and implementation of policy proposals.This approach moves beyond the traditional book and journal literature to primary and secondary government documents produced at the national, state, and local levels. (istl.org)
  • Further, its employees are prohibited from striking, and the TVA is exempt from state and federal antitrust laws, environmental laws (at least at the time of its founding [2] ), Security and Exchange Act regulation except for reporting, state and local electric rate setting, and meaningful oversight by either the President or Congress. (heritage.org)
  • The TVA Coal Ash Spill is an excellent example for illustrating access to primary source government information available to the public following an environmental disaster. (istl.org)
  • Origis estimates the solar array it is building in Northwest Tennessee to supply Google will create about 300 construction jobs. (timesfreepress.com)
  • TVA is considering whether to sell Bellefonte, where more than $4 billion has been spent since construction began in 1974. (wdef.com)
  • Wild River was the first major motion picture filmed entirely in Tennessee and was mostly filmed in Charleston and Cleveland and on Coon Denton Island in the Hiwassee River. (visitclevelandtn.com)
  • By the early 18th century, the Cherokee controlled much of the Tennessee side of the Smokies and had established a series of settlements along the Little Tennessee River . (wikipedia.org)
  • http://www.tva.com/river/recre. (campingroadtrip.com)
  • SACE's Sandra Upchurch reports back from the 15th Annual NAACP-TN Race Relation/Advocacy Summit in Jackson, TN, where young leaders are developing their consciousness of environmental and climate justice. (cleanenergy.org)
  • As the co-chair of the Environmental Climate and Justice (ECJ) committee for TN NAACP State Conference, I was honored to participate this year in the advocacy planning for the College and Youth's Division's Town Hall Meeting. (cleanenergy.org)
  • Conservatives have long opposed the TVA on the grounds that it is an illegitimate government intrusion into the marketplace. (epi.org)
  • Opposition to divestiture received a major boost from a government-commissioned study prepared by Lazard Frères & Co. in 2014 (TVA 2014c). (epi.org)
  • Moody's and Standard & Poor's bond rating agency both said without the ownership and implied backing of the federal government, TVA bonds would likely lose their top rating. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Such a lack of effective oversight from either the government or the private sector has resulted in costly decisions, excessive expenses, electric rates that are higher than in all but one of the larger shareholder-owned utilities in the eight states contiguous to Tennessee, and growing liabilities for all U.S. taxpayers. (heritage.org)
  • While many were having fun decking the halls for Christmas, Greg Henrich's team at TVA was working hard to develop an action plan for the fast approaching chill. (wkrn.com)
  • TVA engineers found the conditions to be right for 'internal erosion,' where voids could develop within the dam or its foundation due to groundwater flow. (newsbreak.com)
  • OMB noted the improvement at TVA, which has pledged to cut operating and maintenance expenses by $500 million a year to improve TVA costs and rates. (timesfreepress.com)