Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up many new projects and agencies to help the hardest hit areas of the United States. One such agency was the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was created in 1933. The Tennessee River valley was continually dealing with floods, deforestation, and eroded land. The TVA aimed to help reduce these problems by teaching better farming methods, replanting trees, and building dams. This agency was also important because it generated and sold surplus electricity, created jobs, and conserved water power. The TVA was a great success almost from the beginning and helped ease some of the economic hardship not only in the state of Tennessee but also in parts of Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. ... [Read More]
TVA: Green Power Switch
TVA and local public power companies, working with input from the environmental community, have created a program called Green Power Switch ® to produce electricity from cleaner, greener sources and add it to the Tennessee Valley’s power mix. Resources like wind, solar power, and methane gas produce energy for today and renew themselves for tomorrow—like a growing plant. ... [Read More]
TVA: About TVA
TVA is the nation’s largest public power company, with 33,000 megawatts of dependable generating capacity. Through 158 locally owned distributors, TVA provides power to nearly 8.5 million residents of the Tennessee Valley. ... [Read More]
TVA OIG - Home
We are successful in large measure due to the excellent cooperation we receive from the TVA Board, TVA management, and the many dedicated employees of TVA across the Tennessee Valley. If you would like to know more about our work, see About the OIG or the Semiannual Reports page. If you wish to report fraud at TVA, please call our fraud hotline and let us hear from you. ... [Read More]
TVA: Freedom of Information Act
Regulations —Current FOIA regulations, 18 CFR 1301 Subpart A (Tennessee Valley Authority Freedom of Information Act) ... Welcome to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) home page for the Tennessee Valley Authority. This section of TVA’s Web site was created in accordance with the provisions of the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996. Like all federal agencies, TVA is required under the FOIA to disclose records that any person requests in writing. Information that is covered by any of the nine exemptions and three exclusions contained in the statute, however, may be withheld. ... [Read More]
TVA:
The site features photographs and texts—including speeches, letters, and other historic documents—from the New Deal period. One of the primary links is “TVA: Electricity For All.” It includes information on the origins of TVA, the people who built the dams, the changes that electricity meant for Valley residents, and Lorena Hickok’s “Letters from the Field.” (Hickok was a journalist who traveled through the Valley in June 1934 recording her impressions of area residents’ reactions to TVA for Harry Hopkins, one of President Roosevelt’s closest advisers, and Eleanor Roosevelt.) ... [Read More]
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