News & Events :: TVA Joins the FREEDM Systems Center
The FREEDM Systems Center and our existing industrial partners are pleased to announce the addition of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as the thirty-third official industry member of our Center. TVA provides reliable, competitively priced electric power that helps businesses and families prosper. TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA's power system consists of a diverse mix of fuel sources, including fossil, nuclear, hydro, and renewables. TVA has 11 coal-fired, two combined-cycle, and eight combustion-turbine sites; three nuclear plants; 29 hydroelectric dams; two diesel generator sites, one pumped-storage plant; 16 solar power sites; one wind-power site; one digester-gas site, and one biomass co-firing site. Generating more electricity than any other public utility in the nation, they supply power through a network of 15,860 miles of transmission line; 487 substations, power switchyards and switching stations; and 1,070 individual interchange and customer connection points. The TVA transmission system has been 99.999 percent reliable for nine years in a row. TVA residential rates are below the national average and TVA programs help consumers use energy wisely.
The 2010 FREEDM Annual Conference and NSF Site Visit will be held May 18-20 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida!
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