Electric utility · EIA utility id 18642
Tennessee Valley Authority
- Ownership, as EIA reports it
- Federal
- States served
- AL, GA, KY, MS, NC, TN
- Customers in 2025
- 65
- Sales in 2025
- 22,483,191 MWh
- Revenue in 2025
- $1,153,969,700
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861) · data for 2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
What it sells and charges
Full service (energy and delivery)
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue | Average price (cents per kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial | 18 | 1,258,183 | $99,119,400 | 7.88 |
| Industrial | 47 | 21,225,008 | $1,054,850,300 | 4.97 |
Trends, 2021 to 2025
Trend table
| Year | Customers |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 60 |
| 2022 | 61 |
| 2023 | 61 |
| 2024 | 64 |
| 2025 | 65 |
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861), 2021 to 2025 · data for 2021-2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Annual peak demand
Not reported to FERC. Only utilities that plan or balance their own system file Form 714.
Its balancing authority, Tennessee Valley Authority, peaked at 35,430 MW in 2025. That is the balancing authority's peak, not this utility's.
Catalyst Cooperative (PUDL), from FERC Form 714 · Annual peak demand by planning area (FERC Form 714, through PUDL) · data for 2006-2025 · as of Oct 14, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Jan 14, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Reliability
Not reported to EIA for 2025. Small utilities are often exempt from reporting reliability.
SAIDI is the average minutes without power per customer in the year; SAIFI is how many outages the average customer had. Major event days are storms and similar rare days, counted with and without.
Generation it operates
| Fuel | Capacity | Net generation in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 14,802.1 MW | 46,547,291 MWh |
| Nuclear | 8,834.8 MW | 58,998,301 MWh |
| Hydro | 5,427.4 MW | 12,537,158 MWh |
| Subbituminous coal | 4,230.2 MW | 13,435,701 MWh |
| Bituminous coal | 2,900 MW | 9,980,739 MWh |
| Distillate fuel oil | 142.2 MW | 131,231 MWh |
| RC | 103,151 MWh | |
| Wind | 0 MWh |
This is generation the utility operates, not the full mix of power it buys. EIA does not publish that mix for each utility.
Plants it operates
- Browns Ferry · AL · 3,854 MW
- Colbert · AL · 1,169.6 MW
- Guntersville · AL · 115.2 MW
- Wheeler Dam · AL · 404 MW
- Bellefonte · AL · 14 MW
- Wilson Dam · AL · 666.7 MW
- Lawrence County Solar · AL · 0 MW
- Blue Ridge · GA · 23.5 MW
- Nottely · GA · 15.9 MW
- Kentucky Dam · KY · 218.6 MW
- Paradise · KY · 1,853.6 MW
- Shawnee · KY · 1,575 MW
- Marshall Energy Facility · KY · 688 MW
- Meridian · MS · 9 MW
- Kemper County · MS · 372 MW
- Caledonia · MS · 801 MW
- TVA Southaven Combined Cycle · MS · 903.9 MW
- Magnolia Power Plant · MS · 1,003.5 MW
- Quantum Choctaw Power LLC · MS · 850.5 MW
- New Caledonia · MS · 0 MW
- Chatuge · NC · 13.2 MW
- Fontana Dam · NC · 254.7 MW
- Hiwassee Dam · NC · 165.6 MW
- Allen · TN · 1,290.1 MW
- Apalachia · TN · 93.6 MW
- Boone Dam · TN · 105.9 MW
- Cherokee Dam · TN · 135 MW
- Chickamauga · TN · 159.6 MW
- Cumberland (TN) · TN · 2,600 MW
- Douglas Dam · TN · 150.8 MW
- Fort Patrick Henry · TN · 59.4 MW
- Fort Loudoun · TN · 153.3 MW
- Gallatin (TN) · TN · 1,918.4 MW
- Great Falls (TN) · TN · 33.7 MW
- John Sevier · TN · 996.9 MW
- Johnsonville · TN · 1,676 MW
- Kingston · TN · 1,700 MW
- Melton Hill · TN · 72 MW
- Nickajack · TN · 103.9 MW
- Norris Dam · TN · 131.4 MW
- Ocoee 1 · TN · 19 MW
- Ocoee 2 · TN · 23 MW
- Ocoee 3 · TN · 28.8 MW
- Pickwick Landing Dam · TN · 240 MW
- South Holston · TN · 38.5 MW
- Tims Ford · TN · 45.7 MW
- Watauga · TN · 57.6 MW
- Watts Bar Hydro · TN · 174.6 MW
- Wilbur · TN · 10.6 MW
- Raccoon Mountain · TN · 1,713.6 MW
- Sequoyah · TN · 2,441 MW
- Watts Bar Nuclear Plant · TN · 2,539.8 MW
- Lagoon Creek · TN · 1,625.2 MW
- Brownsville Peaking Power · TN · 460 MW
- Gleason Generating Facility · TN · 567.8 MW
- Vonore Battery Energy Storage System · TN · 0 MW
Published rates
6 rates in the OpenEI database, newest updated Oct 3, 2019.
OpenEI (National Laboratory of the Rockies), with rates entered by contributors · U.S. Utility Rate Database (OpenEI) · data for 2026-10 · as of Oct 30, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Nov 30, 2026. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.