Tennessee Valley Authority News

This aerial photo of the Kentucky Lock Addition project taken April 26, 2013 in Grand Rivers, Ky., shows construction of a new 1200-foot lock landward of the existing 600-foot lock and the relocated highway and railroad bridges downstream of the dam.

Eighty years after it was birthed by the federal government as a part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority might be better off severed from Uncle Sam, U.S. Sen.

President Barack Obama has proposed studying the possibility of privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority , the nation's largest government-owned utility.

Logan Aluminum in Russellville is saving electricity and money on its power bills at its production facility, through energy efficiency efforts in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority.

By a unanimous vote of the faculty of Dalton State's School of Business, Dr. Larry Johnson has been named the new Dean, and Dr.

The Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting next week to update the public on the clean-up of the 2008 coal ash spill .

The owners of power plants that burn coal are playing high-stakes poker as they decide whether to install expensive pollution controls or shut down If one were to sketch a family tree of eastern U.S. power plants , the Gallatin Fossil Plant outside Nashville, Tenn., and the Big Sandy Power Plant in eastern Kentucky might be distant cousins.

Executives with the Tennessee Valley Authority will meet with officials from President Obama's administration this week to discuss privatization of the utility, WPLN 90.3 FM reports.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander says the Tennessee Valley Authority will help keep a federal fish hatchery in East Tennessee stay open for at least three more years.

Nashville's News 2 has learned that top Tennessee Valley Authority executives will head to Washington on Tuesday to begin "initial talks" on the federal budget issue that prompted rumors the giant utility might be sold.

The Tennessee Valley Authority on Friday celebrated 80 years of delivering reliable and affordable electricity to the people of the Tennessee Valley and invited the public to test their knowledge of TVA in a special online scavenger hunt contest to mark the milestone.

The long-lasting imprint from FDR's famous 'Hundred Days' did not stem from the bank holiday, national industrial recovery act, the farm adjustment act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or the public works administration.

Senator Lamar Alexander on Wednesday told the U.S. Department of Energy's top official that the Obama administration's "ill-conceived, reckless" proposal in the president's budget to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority damaged the value of the utility's bonds and failed to account for the impact to ratepayers, taxpayers and nuclear facilities.

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt and the 73rd Congress established the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide low-cost electricity as well as to manage natural resources.

The Tennessee Valley Authority invites the public to help celebrate 80 years of progress since TVA was founded in 1933, on Friday, at 10:30 a.m. at the TVA West Tower Auditorium at 400 West Summit Hill Drive in downtown Knoxville.

As the Tennessee Valley Authority retires some of its oldest coal-fired power plants, the agency is trying to entice some of the older workers at its fossil plants to also retire.

I am glad that the farmers and property owners in Jefferson County are no longer faced with the agonizing possibility of having to sell their property for the development of a 1,800-acre megasite.

<![CDATA[ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- Federal regulators are conducting a major inspection this week at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be at the Tennessee Valley Authority installation starting Monday. The review is related to serious safety violations revealed at the plant's Unit 1 reactor in 2011. Regulators cited the plant with a major safety violation after workers failed to detect a faulty valve in a cooling system. The agency says the problem revealed inadequate safety procedures at the plant. The inspection this week is the final big step toward Browns Ferry coming out from under increased oversight linked to the problem.

Scott Lee, an ardent fisherman from Oak Ridge, Tenn., has an opinion as to whether Barack Obama should sell the federally chartered Tennessee Valley Authority to private investors: Don't do it.

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