by sfoshee | | Articles of Interest
TVA Visitor Centers: A place to visit, learn and enjoy Did you know in 2024, nearly 100,000 people visited TVA’s visitor centers? TVA helps make the region a great place to visit by protecting natural resources, preserving scenic areas and offering free,...
by sfoshee | | Articles of Interest
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,...
by sfoshee | | Articles of Interest
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...
by sfoshee | | Articles of Interest
Jun 2, 2025 Outdoor Explorers Help Grow Species Database Canada geese, raucously honking, flew low over the Tennessee River in Knoxville. On the boardwalk nearby, a group of hikers searched for tiny plants clinging to the cliffside. Leaf cup plants soaked up the sun....
by sfoshee | | Articles of Interest
May 8, 2025 Visit Spectacular Birdwatching Spots During Spring Migration Throughout the spring, millions – on some nights, billions – of birds soar unseen under the stars on their annual migrations north. People can spot them during the day as birds rest and feast...
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May 9, 2025 Farmers and TVA Use Trees to Aid in Flood Control On the banks of Sugar Creek in south-central Tennessee, pastures rippled in the stiff wind. The scent of gust-carried dust and the spice of springtime plants steeped the air. But the stars of the show were...
