USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -TVA’s facilities for generating electric power include 29 hydroelectric dams, a pumped-storage plant, and 3 nuclear plants; as well as coal-fired, combustion-turbine, natural gas, and nuclear plants; and diesel and solar energy sites. These facilities provide over 27, 000 megawatts of dependable generating capacity.

Detailed explanation-2: -TVA uses water to make electricity at 29 hydroelectric dams and one pumped-storage power plant (at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee). Together these plants produced about 16.1 million megawatt hours of electricity in 2019, enough electricity to power more than one million homes for a year.

Detailed explanation-3: -TVA’s power service territory covers 80, 000 square miles, including most of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia. We provide electricity to nearly 10 million people at prices below the national average.

Detailed explanation-4: -Another goal of the TVA Act was to modernize one of the nation’s most impoverished regions. Low energy rates would help to ensure affordable, reliable power for all. The TVA Act encouraged economic development and provided jobs by bringing electricity to rural areas for the first time.