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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.
Why is TVA headquartered in Knoxville? TVA's first major construction project was Norris Dam, built between 1933 and 1936 about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville.
At Buffalo Mountain in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, TVA operates three wind turbines with a combined generation capacity of 2 MW and purchases the output of 15 additional wind turbines owned by Invenergy that have a combined capacity of 27 MW. As of 2013, the agency had purchased agreements from power generated from wind farms outside its service ...
The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River.
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...
For her reporting, Faizer wanted to know what kind of incentives TVA gave a company called Bitdeer to build a mine at 5101 S. National Drive in East Knoxville in 2018.
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 1.2 million households in the Tennessee Valley.
Here's how TVA compares to peer utilities on clean energy from owned plants, according to data from S&P Global included in a TVA presentation: TVA: 58%. Dominion Energy: 41%. Duke Energy: 38% ...