TVA in Kentucky

Fiscal Year 2011 (October 2010 – September 2011)

In fiscal year 2011, TVA sold more than 6.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to 11 municipal and five cooperatively owned utilities that distribute TVA power in Kentucky.
The distributors provided almost 3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to more than 202,000 households in 28 counties in western and central Kentucky in 2011.
Kentucky distributors served more than 47,000 commercial and industrial customers in fiscal year 2011 with sales of more than 3.7 billion kilowatt-hours. In addition, distributors in Kentucky sold more than 92 million kilowatt-hours in outdoor lighting.
Kentucky is home to 15 directly served customers of TVA that purchased almost 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
TVA power revenues in Kentucky in 2011 totaled more than $1.1 billion, or about 10 percent of all TVA operating revenues.

Distributors of TVA power serve all or a portion of the following counties in south central and western Kentucky: Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Clinton, Cumberland, Edmonson, Fulton, Graves, Grayson, Hickman, Livingston, Logan, Lyon, Marshall, Metcalfe, Monroe, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Simpson, Todd, Trigg, Warren and Whitley.
The TVA service area in Kentucky covers 7,789 square miles, about 9 percent of TVA’s territory. This includes an electricity service area of 7,576 square miles and a watershed management area of 1,042 square miles.

In Kentucky, TVA operates one hydroelectric dam (Kentucky Dam), eight combustion turbines (in Marshall County) and two coal-fired power plants (Paradise and Shawnee), providing a combined generating capacity of more than 4,520 megawatts.
TVA operates a 36-kilowatt solar facility at Lovers Lane soccer complex in Bowling Green.
TVA owns or maintains 55 substations and switchyards and 1,634 miles of transmission line in Kentucky.

Kentucky Reservoir has a surface area of 160,300 acres and about 2,000 miles of shoreline.
TVA manages recreational, natural and cultural resources on more than 60,000 acres of public land around Kentucky Reservoir and partners with local and regional stakeholders to improve water quality, shoreline conditions and biodiversity.
Kentucky residents enjoy camping, fishing, boating, swimming and other recreational opportunities provided by Kentucky Reservoir, as well as economic benefits resulting from recreation and tourism. TVA manages one day-use recreation area along Kentucky Reservoir in Kentucky.

TVA maintains the structural, seismic and hydrologic integrity of Kentucky Dam, which at 8,422 feet is the longest dam on the Tennessee River.
TVA owns Kentucky Lock, serving 35 ports and terminals. Approximately 32 million tons of cargo move through the facilities annually.
Kentucky Dam and Reservoir are operated to reduce crests on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Eight industries, one mining company and one town (Grand Rivers) in Kentucky draw water from Tennessee River System. Water also is drawn for irrigation.

Kentucky households had about 3.4 million kilowatt-hours in energy efficiency savings resulting from almost 800 In-Home Energy Evaluations by TVA-certified evaluators and nearly 1,600 do-it-yourself home energy evaluations taken online or by paper survey.

TVA paid $46.5 million in lieu of taxes in Kentucky in 2011, based on power sales and power property values in the state.

TVA works with power distributors, directly served customers, and regional, state and community organizations to create economic development opportunities for the TVA region. Economic development focuses on attracting and retaining jobs, increasing capital investment, and helping communities prepare for growth. During fiscal year 2011, 5,100 jobs were created or retained in Kentucky and $378 million was invested.

In fiscal year 2011, TVA purchased $35 million in nuclear enrichment services, $631 million in fossil fuels and $19 million in nonfuel materials and services from Kentucky vendors.

March 2012