Power Generation
- Nation’s largest
public power system
- 31,658 megawatts of capacity (net winter
dependable)
- 11 fossil plants (59 units)
- 3 nuclear plants (5 units)
- 29 hydro plants (109 units)
- 6 combustion turbine plants (72 units)
- 15 solar energy sites
- 1 wind energy site (3 turbines)
- 1 pumped storage plant (4 units)
Customers
- 158 power distributors
- 62 directly
served customers
- 12 exchange power arrangements*
Transmission
- Reliable, even under severe conditions
- 99.999 percent reliability
- 17,000 miles of transmission lines
- 117,000 transmission line structures
- 1,015 individual interchange and connection
points
- 240,000 right-of-way acres
- 80,000 square-mile service area
Stewardship
- Nation’s fifth-largest river
system
- 800 miles of commercially navigable waterways
- 49 dams for integrated river management
- 50 million short-tons of goods shipped annually
- $500 million in potential flood damage avoided
in 2003
- 11,000 miles of reservoir shoreline
- 228,000 acres of public land for resource
management
- 650,000 surface acres of water for recreational
use
- 100 public recreation areas
Economic Development
- $329 million in tax-equivalent payments
to Valley states and counties
- $1.4 billion total TVA employee compensation
- $21 million in economic development loan
commitments to Valley businesses
- $2.5 billion spent in Valley states for
goods, fuel, and services
- 47,000 jobs attracted or retained by TVA
and its strategic partners
- $1.6 billion in capital leveraged by Valley
investors and strategic partners
*Includes an exchange arrangement with TAPOCO Inc., a division of Alcoa Inc., which is one of TVA’s 62 directly served customers. |
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