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The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
TVA still leans on its four remaining coal plants for 13% of its electricity production, though it plans to close its last coal plant by 2035. It generates over half of its power from carbon-free ...
Some of the agencies still exist today, while others have merged with other departments and agencies or were abolished. The agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup. Libertarian author William Safire notes that the phrase "gave color to the charge of excessive bureaucracy."
Nuclear power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant: 3 3,775 Limestone County, Alabama: 1974 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant: 2 2,333 Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee: 1981 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant: 2 2,332 Rhea County, Tennessee: 1996
Nearly 47 years after construction began on the Bellefonte plant in Northeast Alabama, TVA is giving up its construction permit for America's largest unfinished nuclear plant. As the headline ...
TVA and DOE will develop a plan in coming months that could be used to provide DOE and other federal customers with 100% CFE by 2030 on a yearly basis DOE, TVA partner to power ORNL, Y-12 with 100 ...
Independent agencies exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. [ 1 ] : 6 There is a further distinction between independent executive agencies and independent regulatory agencies, which have been assigned rulemaking responsibilities or authorities by Congress.
See how much TVA's top five executives made this year, as well as the median pay for its 11,267 employees. TVA CEO's $10.5M is still the highest pay among federal employees. Who got raises and why?