TVA

TVA The **Tennessee Valley Authority** (**TVA**) is a federally owned corporation in the U.S created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide flood control,navigation, electricity generation,economic fertilizer and manufacturing development in the Tennessee Valley. The TVA was the first large regional planning agency of the federal government and remains the largest. With the leadership of david lilienthal. TVA became a model for America's governmental efforts to modernize Third World agrarian societies. TVA today is the nation's largest public power company providing tennessee valley 9 million customers. TVA developed fertilizers, taught farmers ways to improve crop yields and helped replant forests, and also controlled forest fires.TVA today is the nation's largest public power company providing tennessee valley 9 million customers.

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President Franklin D. Rosavelt signed the **Tennessee Valley Authority Act** creating TVA on May 18, 1933. As a supplier of electric power, the agency was given authority to enter into long-term (20 years) contracts for the sale of power to government agencies and private entities, to construct electric power transmission lines. TVA is both a power supplier and a regulatory agency. Today, TVA is the nation's largest public power company, providing electric power to over nine million customers in the Tennessee Valley. It acts primarily as an electric power wholesaler, selling to __156__ retail power distributors and __56__ directly served industrial or government customers. Power comes from damss providing hydroelectric power, fossil fuel, plants, nuclear power, plants, combustion turbines, wind turbines and solar panels. this is some information on TVA.





On December 22, 2008, an earthen dike at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant broke, spreading one billion gallons of wet coal ash across __300 acres__ of land and into the tributaries of the Tennessee River. The non-profit Southern Alliance for Clean Energy plans on suing TVA for __$165 million__ on behalf of residents in the area. The Kentucky Sierra Club called the disaster the "worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl". While TVA's culture at its fossil fuel plants was not the cause of the Kingston Spill, the culture contributed to the spill, as was appropriately noted in the TVA OIG's report. The disaster continues to poison lakes and stream as well as potentially the drinking water of millions. As reported in the Tuscaloosa news on January 3, 2010, "Eight river systems have come in contact with the disaster ash. The Emory, Clinch and Tennessee rivers flow into the Mississippi. The disaster ash is literally being railroaded into the Perry County community. The landfill lies in the Chilatchee and Tayloe Creek watersheds and flows into the Alabama River. Leachate from the landfill was being shipped to Marion, where it was discharged into the Cahaba River Basin. It is being trucked into Demopolis, where it goes to the Tombigbee River that flows into the Mobile River. That adds up to 8 rivers with two separate entries to the Gulf of Mexico. It is spreading through our rivers like cancer flows through the blood steam." In 2009, TVA signed 20-year power purchase agreements with Maryland-based CVP Renewable Energy Co. and Chicago-based Invenergy Wind LLC for electricity generated by wind farms

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TVA's power mix as of 2010 is __11 coal-powered plants, 29 hydroelectric dams, three nuclear power plants, nine combustion turbine plants and three gas-fueled combined cycle plants__. TVA is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States and acts as a regional grid reliability coordinator. Fossil fuel plants produced __62%__ of TVA’s total generation in fiscal year 2005, nuclear power __28%__, and hydropower __10%__. TVA was heralded by New Dealers and the New Deal Coalition not only as a successful economic development program for a depressed area but also as a democratic nation-building effort overseas because of its alleged grassroots inclusiveness as articulated by director David Lilienthal. The TVA was controversial in the 1930s. Historian Thomas McCraw concludes (1971 p 157) that Roosevelt "rescued the [power] industry from its own abuses" but "he might have done this much with a great deal less agitation and ill will." New Dealers hoped to build numerous other TVAs around the country but were defeated by Wendell Willkie and the Conservative coalition in Congress.