Passing the Baton

If our plants are the heart of power production at TVA, then the System Operations Center (SOC) is the mind. The SOC acts as the grid’s nervous system, reacting and responding to events in real-time. The headquarters, encapsulated within 10-inch-thick concrete...

Power on the Peak

Crews Refurbish TVA’s Iconic Mountaintop Hydroelectric Plant  It’s about midafternoon on a Wednesday, deep inside the Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant. TVA outage manager Aaron Case grins subtly as he feels a familiar rumble beneath his steel-toed boots. Nearby,...

May 2025 / June 2025

Notifications received from Retirement Services ALLEN, REX L RICEVILLE, TN Date of Death 6/7/2025 Retired 12/2/1992 AYCOCK, JOHNNY B TUSCUMBIA, AL Date of Death 6/14/2025 Retired 4/7/1994 BRADLEY, JR, ROBERT D KNOXVILLE, TN Date of Death 6/10/2025 Retired 6/4/1993...

The Basement Brain Trust

May 29, 2025 Maintenance Experts Bring Generating Unit Up to Peak Form In a basement conference room at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Shawnee Fossil Plant near Paducah, Kentucky, about 20 people cluster around a rectangle of tables. Fuzzy is there. And Skinny. And...