TVA STEM award cycle now open

TVA’s STEM Award Program for science, technology, engineering and math education is now open for applications through Sept. 15. For the third consecutive year, the program will provide $1.5 million to fund STEM learning projects in classrooms and schools in TVA’s...

Leveling up

When it comes to technology, change is inevitable. But with change comes new capabilities. In keeping with a focus on continuous improvement, TVA launched a new digital control system (DCS) for units at Gallatin Fossil Plant. The scope of the project included the...

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...

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...