Rolling blackouts happened in the South, but not in Tennessee
Why Tennessee was able to avoid these extended outages and rolling blackouts?
Aaron Paul Melda, transmission and power supply senior vice president for the Tennessee Valley Authority, says the utility's continued reliability is a product of its dedicated workforce and its public power system model.
"We have been built and funded by the people of the United States and the Tennessee Valley and are beholden to them alone," he said, adding that the utility can plan its grid and operations more conservatively in the absence of investor pressure.
"We work to balance cost and high reliability and ensure a diverse fleet so that we have the ability to shift power sources if need be," he said.
We have a underlying philosophy of not putting all our eggs in one basket." TVA's power comes from coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy sources.
40% of TVA's generating capacity is nuclear, and 45% of its power is coming from carbon-free sources, according to the company.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2021/02/17/winter-storm-tva-avoid-rolling-blackouts-plagued-nearby-staes/6780479002/
We know TVA could never be built today under any GOP administration.
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in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. Senator George W. Norris (R-Nebraska) was a strong sponsor of this project. TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and rural electrification to help modernize the rural region's economy and society.[3]
TVA's service area covers most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. It was the first large regional planning agency of the federal government and remains the largest. Under the leadership of David E. Lilienthal ("Mr. TVA"
, the TVA became a model for the United States' later efforts to help modernize agrarian societies in the developing world.[4] In later decades, hydropower's share fell to 10% of TVAs power production (2018).'>>>
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A Socialist!
TVA put thousands of people to work in very tough times. The kind of big infrastructure projects Biden wants to start building.
My uncle was one of those who worked for the TVA at its begining.
My f.i.l. worked for the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in middle TN which was FDR's first New Deal agencies. Jobs were very scarce during the Great Depression.
Folks can visit most any state or National Park in U.S. and you'll be driving on roads, walking on trails and using facilities built by the CCC.
For a fascinating read, check out this CCC on Wikipedia.
Here's a few of the famous folks who joined:
Alvin C. York
Hubert D. Humphreys
Raymond Burr
Archie Moore, Boxing Champion
Robert Mitchum
Chuck Yeager
Stan Musial
Walter Matthau
