Spring cleaning

Enjoy the Outdoors While Making a Difference at a Volunteer Cleanup Event Near You The Tennessee Valley is a fast-growing region with lots to love. With mountains, grasslands, rivers and reservoirs, there’s beauty, adventure and opportunity for all. This spring, give...

Visitor centers ready for new season

When the flowers are blooming and the trees are blossoming, it’s nigh time for a new season at TVA’s visitor centers. The team at Bicentennial Volunteers, Inc. (BVI) is hard at work as they prepare retiree volunteers for the April 4 opening of the manned visitor...

Loyalty unleashed

Imagine being asked to smell a pie and then identify every ingredient. Then, imagine that pie being in a sealed box on the other side of the room. Impossible right? Dogs, on the other hand, were built for this. Equipped with a staggering 125 million to 300 million...

Ready and reliable

Inside a hilltop building overlooking Chickamauga Dam, a group of Reliability Coordinators sits quietly at desks facing a large, semicircular screen. On the screen is an image that resembles an arcade game from the ’80s – a vibrant maze of pathways representing the...

What yesterday built

A reflection of the video screens at the System Operations Center glimmered in his eyes, glassy with tears. “I just – I’m overwhelmed,” TVA retiree Hugh Gardner, 93, said. “I may just break out in tears.” In the ’60s, Hugh was a Power Supply Manager – a position...