TVA
The latest TVA coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Business section.
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TVA credit rating downgraded due to US debt, deficit
The loss of Moody’s top credit rating followed the same loss for the U.S. government last week
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Fired TVA director says clean energy tax credits critical
As a giant Republican tax cut bill stalls in Congress, a former member of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors called for stability in clean energy tax credits helping fund Chattanooga projects.
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TVA launches team charged with slicing operational costs
The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday publicly launched its new executive team that is charged with cutting the utility's operational costs by nearly $1 billion while supplying steady power.
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Natural gas eclipses nuclear as TVA outages persist
The federal utility usually relies on atomic plants, which are having a bad performance year
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TVA sues Mississippi town, alleging missed payments, outages
The Tennessee Valley Authority sued a Mississippi town whose electric department has been mired in frequent outages and customer complaints, alleging in a federal lawsuit that the local utility violated its power contract with TVA by failing to serve its customers and pay its bills.
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Vacancies leave TVA board handcuffed for May meeting
The gathering marked the first time the panel lacked enough members to muster a quorum in 25 years
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TVA may maintain some coal powered plants past 2035
Prompting pushback from environmental groups, CEO Don Moul said it's possible TVA could maintain at least part of its coal fleet past 2035, which is the year the agency had initially set to shut down the aging facilities.
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TVA resubmits request for $800 million after feds say they removed DEI criteria
TVA is reapplying for $800 million in federal funding that would speed up construction of the nation's first small, modular nuclear reactor near Oak Ridge.
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Hagerty calls TVA ‘limiting factor’ on economic development projects in Tennessee
U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty said TVA has become "the limiting factor" on economic development projects in Tennessee, noting brownouts across the state during Winter Storm Elliot in 2022 revealed the federal utility's lack of generating capacity.
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Congressman calls pay for TVA CEO ridiculous, but agency says it’s lower than other utilities and his predecessor
Although he will still bring in millions of dollars, the new CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Don Moul, is at the bottom of the list compared to what peer utilities pay their executives, according to the agency.
