Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $800 million to the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support construction of what may be the country’s first advanced small modular reactors.
Solar power generation will expand strongly but not uniformly in Southeast states through the 2020s, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says in its annual solar report.
Each of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors said they did not support the privatization of the utility or selling its assets, as feared by some environmentalists.
Environmental and social justice organizations worry the Tennessee Valley Authority could be headed toward privatization with a slate of board candidates assembled by the Trump administration.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is closing in on a gas-for-coal swap at its Cumberland plant after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected environmental groups’ arguments against FERC’s environmental review.
The Electric Policy Research Institute and Nuclear Energy Institute have issued an update to the Advanced Reactor Roadmap they launched in 2023.
TVA and ENTRA1 Energy will develop new nuclear plants using the small modular reactor NuScale Power expects to deploy by 2030.
A power purchase agreement between Kairos and TVA would deliver up to 50 MW from Kairos’ planned Hermes 2 Plant to the TVA grid, which powers Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.
Google reached demand response agreements with Indiana Michigan Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority to reduce power use by its data centers during critical periods.
The nine-member TVA board is down to three members due to the Senate’s failure to act on President Biden’s three nominations in 2024 and Trump’s firing of three sitting members in the spring of 2025.
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