A Win for the Birds

Paradise Fossil Plant Crews Help Protect Peregrine Falcons   High above the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Paradise reservation in western Kentucky, a tiny black dot rocketed toward Earth. It was hard to make out any shape – only that it approached with incredible...

July 2025 / August 2025

Notifications received from Retirement Services BANKS, FRANK D RALEIGH, NC Date of Death 7/28/2025 Retired 8/16/1988 BAESE, DALE EDWIN CHATTANOOGA, TN Date of Death 7/31/2025 Retired 12/15/2009 BARKSDALE, DONALD W KNOXVILLE, TN Date of Death 8/3/2025 Retired...

TVA building America’s energy future

This week, Don penned an op-ed in the Chattanooga Times Free Press highlighting TVA’s work to build more electricity, which will power more American jobs, American-led innovation and American prosperity. We want the next generation of American jobs to be built...

A nickel in the cement

For many families, stories passed down from generation to generation carry a weight that time can’t erode.   For one woman, that story lived in the concrete of the Fontana Dam – pressed into the cement by her father’s hand more than 80 years ago.   In...

At this camp, learning is electric

Each summer, middle schoolers from across Tennessee descend upon Knoxville’s University of Tennessee campus for summer camp. But this isn’t the cabin-and-lake camp you may be envisioning. This camp is all about energy.   For three days, campers were immersed in...