TVA News

10/07/2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority has named Alabama native Matt Rasmussen as its chief nuclear officer, building out the federal utility's executive team after several retirements since May.

10/03/2025

Two members of Congress have confirmed active discussions of U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, as a possible CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Hagerty is not answering media questions about the possibility.

09/28/2025

A Tennessee woman who watched her parents get swept by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene one year ago is suing the Tennessee Valley Authority in a wrongful death lawsuit filed Thursday.

09/27/2025

Chattanooga State Community College will host the final stop of a national bus tour for the new documentary "The Nuclear Frontier," which interviews advocates and leaders about a coming expansion of nuclear energy in the U.S.

09/25/2025

TVA lost ratepayers $645 million over three years while seeking to shield their power bills and the federal utility's balance sheets from natural gas price spikes, according to a TVA Office of Inspector General audit report released Wednesday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority lost ratepayers $645 million over three years while seeking to shield their power bills and the federal utility's balance sheets from natural gas price spikes, according to a TVA Office of Inspector General audit report released Wednesday.

09/24/2025

In the dark of night on Sept. 27, 2024, crews at the Tennessee Valley Authority completely lost sight of Nolichucky Dam under floodwaters raging down from the Smoky Mountains.

09/24/2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority's system of dams is more resilient one year after it prevented $186 million of flood damage in Chattanooga in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, utility leaders said Tuesday during a visit to Chickamauga Dam.

09/23/2025

Jared Sullivan, who graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013, won the Tennessee Book Award for nonfiction for his debut book chronicling the legal fallout from the Tennessee Valley Authority's 2008 coal ash spill.

09/20/2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority formalized its intent to build the world's first nuclear fusion power plant at its former Bull Run coal-fired plant outside Oak Ridge with Knoxville-based developer Type One Energy.

09/17/2025

Seventy feet below the surface of Chickamauga Lake, the atmosphere between the walls of the 85-year-old dam holding back the reservoir is similar to a cave.

09/14/2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority just wrapped up a summer of record power demand, but it's facing high risk of electricity shortages this winter, said a former planning manager at the federal utility.

09/10/2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is working to achieve President Donald Trump's goal to "unleash American energy," but the call to cancel its plans for a fossil fuel power plant outside Nashville came from inside the MAGA house.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is working to achieve President Donald Trump's goal to "unleash American energy," but the call to cancel its plans for a fossil fuel power plant outside Nashville came from inside the MAGA house.