Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency that provides electricity generation, transmission, and power supply management. The entity delivers power to local power companies and directly served customers, while maintaining extensive transmission and generating infrastructure across nuclear, combustion turbine, and other power resources. In addition to power supply and load management, it conducts related operations including transmission system management, fuel supply administration, research and development, flood control activities, and environmental stewardship.

The enterprise operates generation and transmission properties, public land management reservoir properties, and associated buildings. Its facilities and operations are situated within a designated regional service area centered on the Tennessee and Cumberland River systems in the United States. Operations span facilities across its service territory, supporting regional power delivery and water resource management. The organization maintains properties and infrastructure throughout its operating territory under federal statutory authority.

Summary of the business section of Tennessee Valley Authority's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“TVA supplies reliable power over 16,000 miles of transmission lines to a population of approximately 10 million people over nearly 80,000 square miles in seven southeastern states, employs approximately 10,900 people, and helps recruit and retain billions of dollars in economic development projects annually.”