With this week's heat wave pushing temperatures to a record high and local electricity rates on the rise, most Chattanooga households will be paying higher monthly power bills in coming weeks.
While TVA expands its generation and transmission system to meet higher power demands, the utility also plans to cut its operating expenses by $950 million over the next three years.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is taking another step toward developing the first small modular reactor of its kind on an East Tennessee site where the utility previously abandoned other nuclear technologies.
One of Chattanooga's biggest personal injury law firms, Warren & Griffin, has relocated its 30-person downtown office out of the historic Dome Building.
Higher inflation, interest rates and power demand push up price of electricity another 5.25% in October following 4.5% rate hike last year
Mortgage rates ease from 20-year high but unlikely to drop much more
Chattanooga Bakery has produced millions of MoonPies since the company invented the marshmallow treat in 1917 to satisfy a Kentucky coal miner who asked for a snack "as big as the moon."
In an increasingly urbanized Hamilton County, the developers of the Flipper Bend subdivision on Signal Mountain have sought to preserve as many trees as possible on the property's 400-acre mountaintop property, setting aside residential lots with up to four acres each on some sites.
The cold weather in January pushed electricity use in the Tennessee Valley to an all-time high, and last month's heat wave pushed TVA's power demand to record highs for the month of June.
Southern utilities are turning to the sun to help meet higher electricity demand with plans to more than double solar power generation by 2027, according to a new study on solar generation in the Southeast.
