TVA in Mississippi

Fiscal Year 2011 (October 2010 – September 2011)

In fiscal year 2011, TVA sold over 11 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to 14 municipal and 14 cooperatively owned utilities that distribute TVA power in Mississippi.
Mississippi is home to seven directly served customers of TVA that purchased over 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2011.
TVA’s power revenues in Mississippi totaled to more than $1 billion in fiscal year 2011, or about 9.4 percent of all TVA operating revenues.
These local utilities are located in 36 Mississippi counties and served 326,715 households with sales of nearly 5.2 billion kilowatt-hours in 2011.
Distributors of TVA power served more than 81,000 commercial and industrial customers in Mississippi, with sales of about 5.6 billion kilowatt-hours. Additionally, distributors in Mississippi sold approximately 205 million kilowatt-hours to outdoor lighting customers.

Municipal and cooperatively owned utilities sell TVA electricity in the counties of Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Kemper, Lafayette, Leake, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Rankin, Scott, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Webster, Winston and Yalobusha.
The TVA service area in Mississippi covers 15,551 square miles, including 421 square miles of watershed management. This represents about 18 percent of TVA’s territory and about a third of Mississippi.

TVA has three combustion turbine sites in Mississippi. The facilities at Caledonia and Southaven have combined cycle combustion turbines. At the third site, Kemper, a simple cycle combustion turbine produces power. Caledonia and Southaven each have three units that can generate more than 800 megawatts of peaking power per site. Kemper has four units with a total generating capacity of 340 megawatts.
TVA operates two solar facilities in Mississippi — a 30-kilowatt site on the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi and a 15-kilowatt site at Mississippi State University in Starkville.
TVA owns or maintains 80 substations and switchyards and 2,036 miles of transmission line in Mississippi.
As part of TVA’s vision to lead the nation in low-cost and cleaner energy by 2020, TVA purchased the Magnolia Combined Cycle Gas Plant in northern Mississippi. The three-unit natural gas-fired plant is located on a 374 acre site with the capacity of 968 megawatts, which makes it TVA’s largest combined cycle gas plant.

Part of Pickwick Reservoir, including 90 miles of public shoreline, is located in the northeastern portion of Mississippi and provides camping, fishing, boating, swimming and other recreational opportunities. TVA maintains two stream access sites in the state.
TVA manages recreational, natural and cultural resources on more than 1,700 acres of public land in Mississippi and partners with local and regional stakeholders to improve water quality, shoreline conditions and biodiversity.

About 200 million gallons of water per day are diverted from the Tennessee River to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to help support navigation and recreation, as well as protect aquatic habitat in Mississippi.
One municipality in Mississippi draws water from the Tennessee River System. Water also is drawn for irrigation.

Mississippi households had about 3.9 million kilowatt-hours of electric energy efficient savings from the completion of nearly 900 In-Home Energy Evaluations by TVA-certified evaluators and approximately 1,800 do-it-yourself home energy evaluations taken online or by paper survey.

TVA paid $33.2 million in lieu of taxes in Mississippi in 2011, based on power sales and power property values in the state.

TVA works with local power utilities, directly served customers, and regional, state and community organizations to create economic development opportunities. The effort focuses on attracting and retaining jobs, increasing capital investment, and helping communities prepare for growth. During fiscal year 2011, 3,500 jobs were created or retained in Mississippi and $304 million was invested.

In fiscal year 2011, TVA purchase almost $6 million in nonfuel materials and services from Mississippi vendors.

March 2012