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TVA seeks $350 million in federal funds for transmission upgrades, more renewable power access
The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking $350 million in federal funding to build a new transmission line to bring more wind power generation to the Tennessee Valley to make TVA's power greener and more reliable.
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TVA seeks to buy more power to meet growing electricity demand
With the population and electricity demand in the Tennessee Valley outpacing the U.S. average, the Tennessee Valley Authority on Monday began soliciting proposals from other utilities and independent power producers to supply more electricity to help meet TVA's growing power demand.
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TVA pledges cleaner power future but critics blast plans to build more gas plants
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which already generates most of its electricity from carbon-free nuclear and hydroelectric sources, pledged Thursday to continue to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in the future by encouraging more energy efficiency, phasing out the last of its coal power plants and turning more to harnessing the power of the sun with more solar generation backed up by peaking natural gas power plants.
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TVA adopts changes that could cut compensation for highest-paid federal employee
The Tennessee Valley Authority is scaling back the formula used to compensate its CEO, potentially trimming the pay for America's highest-paid federal employee.
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TVA ignores warnings in moving forward with new natural gas plant
The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn't comply with federal law.
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Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences gets TVA grant for energy upgrade
After spending the past 13 years at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, Sullivan Smith has seen the highs and lows in temperatures and lighting in the 104-year-old building where he has attended school since kindergarten.
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Cheaper fuel lowers TVA prices but consumers paid more this winter due to colder weather
The Tennessee Valley Authority raised its base rates for the first time in four years in the fall, when it also phased out millions of dollars of the pandemic relief it had provided to local power companies in each of the previous three years.
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TVA to take more time developing long-term power plans
The Tennessee Valley Authority is putting a pause on the release of a new long-term power plan to give the federal utility more time to consider changing markets and regulations as it tries to plan how to electrify its seven-state region through 2050.
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EPA rules may require TVA to rethink some power plans
EPA's new pollution limits on fossil fuel plants could require the Tennessee Valley Authority to alter some of its future power generation plans or develop more carbon capture technologies to offset emissions from its growing fleet of natural gas-fired generation.
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TVA to shut down Kingston coal plant
When it was built in 1955, the Kingston Fossil Plant was the largest coal-fired generating facility in the world, a distinction the Tennessee Valley Authority plant held for more than a decade.
