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Former generation facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Type Capacity Location Years of operation Hales Bar Dam [28] Hydroelectric [28] 99.7 [28] Haletown, Tennessee [28] 1913–1967 [28] Wilson Steam Plant [29] Coal [29] 240 [29] Muscle Shoals, Alabama [29] 1919–1966 [29] Watts Bar Steam Plant [30] Coal [29] 267 [29] Rhea County ...
The TVA established the stairway of nine dams and locks that turned the Tennessee River into a 652-mile-long river highway. Dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the river include the following (listed from the furthest upstream to the furthest downstream):
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
Owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the plant can generate a maximum of 1,652 megawatts of electricity. The reservoir at the top of the mountain covers 528 acres (214 ha), with a dam that is 230 feet (70 m) high and 5,800 feet (1,800 m) long, the largest rock-fill dam ever built by TVA. The plant serves as an important ...
Piedmont Lithium received a $141.7 million grant from the DOE in October 2022 for an East Tennessee plant in McMinn County, a site the company chose largely because of TVA. The plant is scheduled ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Attorney General Kris Kobach say Kansas waterways could be devastated by invasive carp if Nebraska allows water transfer.
The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.