The Tennessee Valley Authority avoided blackouts during this week’s Arctic freeze partially thanks to people around Tennessee voluntarily reducing their energy consumption.
Tracking Tennessee’s fossil fuel expansion in 2023 — and a few climate wins
Earth is about to finish the hottest year on record — and it was marked by deadly heat, droughts, floods and disease outbreaks. Fossil fuels are the main driver — but that industry expanded in Tennessee this year.
Nuclear will be part of the clean energy future. Tennessee plans to lead in building ‘small’ reactors.
In Oak Ridge, the place where the first electricity from nuclear power was generated, the Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to build what may become the nation’s first mini nuclear plant.
TVA proposes 8th gas plant in 3 years
The reliability of gas is under greater scrutiny after blackouts related to recent Arctic blasts, like Winter Storm Elliott in 2022 and Winter Storm Uri in 2021. TVA had generation issues in at least 10 of its 17 gas plants last year.
Tennessee is vulnerable to winter blackouts. Here is a big reason why.
Last December, the Tennessee Valley Authority said it was prepared to handle 34 gigawatts of demand. When an Arctic blast dropped temperatures right before Christmas, demand peaked at about 33.4 GW.
Tennessee is drafting its first-ever plan to cut climate pollution. The state wants your input.
In the next few months, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will complete two firsts for the state. The agency will create an inventory of the state’s biggest climate offenders — and then draft a plan to cut that pollution statewide.
Nashville is getting a new rooftop solar program. Here’s what we know so far.
Rooftop solar will soon be more affordable for some people in Nashville. The Nashville Electric Service is creating a new program to pay households with solar panels that produce excess electricity. The program was designed through a new contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
‘Stop polluting the communities of Black folks’: A Memphis resident reacts to TVA’s latest methane gas proposal
The Tennessee Valley Authority has planned the largest fossil fuel buildout of any utility in the nation this decade — and it just proposed another project.
Your electricity bill is going up. Why? TVA is only telling part of the $15B answer.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will spend $15 billion on capital projects, like new generation and transmission, in the next three years. On what, exactly?
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