Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned public power corporation that generates and delivers electricity to over 10 million people across a seven-state southeastern US region using nuclear, hydroelectric, coal, gas, and solar generation. It also manages the Tennessee River system and public lands for flood control, navigation, recreation, and environmental stewardship.www.tva.gov
374
MENTIONS
183
EPISODES
157
PODCASTS
Search complete. 374 mentions across 183 episodes found for "Tennessee Valley Authority".
Oct 28, 2026
Heather Cox RichardsonHOST
And he's like, what are we doing here, folks? So we start to have a basic social safety net.
Heather Cox RichardsonHOST
We also get investment in infrastructure like the Tennessee Valley Authority, for example.
Heather Cox RichardsonHOST
the TVA, which was designed to bring electricity to one of the poorest areas of the country, as well as damming rivers for flood control.
Heather Cox RichardsonHOST
Flood control is actually a really big deal in the United States, and I assume in other countries as well.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
Just go back to pre-World War II.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
Just go back there where the government established work programs like TVA and WPA and building the Hoover Dam and all this other stuff.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
People had work, and work is meaningful.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
So to have work, to be able to work, it provides meaning to our lives.
Rachel LippmannHOST
So would you support the government giving them the place to work, as happened with the TVA, with Works Projects, with Civilian Conservation Corps? Because those were all government programs enabling people to work.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
That is a better program than just giving money for no work.
Jeff WilsonGUEST
It's just a better program.
Jeff PoorHOST
Well, ever since we electrified the state.
Jeff PoorHOST
You're going back to, you know, the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Jeff PoorHOST
And it's just, I tell the story all the time.
Jeff PoorHOST
I was working on a project about 10 years ago.
Justin PearsonGUEST
It increased the pollution so much that members of my family and my district, because it's my constituents, actually got hospitalized, had asthma attacks that they'd never had since they were kids, and now are dealing with COPD and the effects of of the increases in pollution.
Justin PearsonGUEST
Because it's not just one thing, we've got their gas turbines, we've got the Tennessee Valley Authority's turbines, we've got Valero ore refinery, like they're killing our community.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And now Elon has 59 gas turbines across the border in North Mississippi, and all the pollution, 73% of the pollution is blowing right into Memphis and Shelby County.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And so I'm glad that he's going to finally be on here, because you should ask him about that.
Larry McDonaldGUEST
They start, you know, taking, reining things in or monetizing assets.
Larry McDonaldGUEST
And the United States has like all kinds of assets, the Tennessee Valley Authority, parts of Yellowstone, gold.
Larry McDonaldGUEST
But we have a lot more debt than our government assets.
Larry McDonaldGUEST
We have a lot of wealth.
Tim McKernanHOST
Is that a new report? Did you know they're making Days of Thunder 2 while filming is set to begin in March of 2027 with a June 2028 release date? Will Movie Boy review it? i guess that depends on whether he's single or not in june 2028 so for his sake let's hope not fun fact for no intel in days of thunder when tom cruise aka colt trickles racing team gets pulled over where cruz with his soft cow in tight jeans is frisked by a female stripper pretending to be a cop who rips open his button fly and feels him up that actress's name is leilani sorrell and she is the same woman who played sharon stone's lesbian lover roxy in basic instinct I'll be right back.
Tim McKernanHOST
That's from Buck Swope, TVA The Recess Lady's Breast.
Tim McKernanHOST
Buck Swope.
Tim McKernanHOST
Doug, did you know that she played Roxy? Of course not.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
So that also influences the way we think about the conversation with the landowner or even engagement with the community.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
So we're thinking about, in this case, in the Valley, for many years, it was purely TVA.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
How much demand is TVA going to have? And so through membership with organizations like Tennessea – we're at the annual meeting right now – We had an ability alongside our industry colleagues to understand what the integrated resource plan for TVA was going to be.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
How are they thinking about future load growth? How are they thinking about their future energy mix? And saying, is this a market we want to be in? If we think there's enough demand, let's invest in development capabilities here in the Tennessee Valley.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
And Tennessee Valley is not just Tennessee.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
And once they identify willing landowners, sometimes these projects, because of the scale now, you're talking about three or four or five or six adjacent landowners, you really have to, it's threading a needle a little bit, Tim, and finding customer need locations transmission availability and access, and then willing landowners.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
That's kind of the table stakes, if you will.
Matt BeasleyGUEST
You've got a site, you filed an interconnection application, and that's when you have to follow through all the studies that can take a couple of years through TVA's system where you validate the assumptions that our transmission planning team have made.
Kevin McAfeeGUEST
Yeah.
Kevin McAfeeGUEST
It's happening everywhere, even the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Kevin McAfeeGUEST
is still trying to use some eminent domain in some of their power distribution area, you know.
Kevin McAfeeGUEST
And I think it's John Rich, the musician, is big into that realm with these people.
Lee RawlesHOST
But I wanted to pull out one major case she did because I have a personal connection to it.
Lee RawlesHOST
It's the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1937, this case.
Lee RawlesHOST
My grandfather was able to eat because he got a job with the Tennessee Valley Authority as a teenager.
Lee RawlesHOST
For people who don't know, tell them a little bit about what the Tennessee Valley Authority was and then the case and how Florence adjudicated it.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
Yeah, the Tennessee Valley Authority was one of FDR's New Deal legislative kind of ideas, which is that we're going to dam up the rivers around Tennessee, a big area, and then the dams will create electric power, and then the government will sell that electric power.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
And it was a way to really help an impoverished area survive.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
lots of poverty, not being able to eat, not kind of decimated, and provide jobs, get people back to work as part of the Great Depression.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
And this notion that they would have to compete with the government monopoly was alleged to be socialism and really kind of out of bounds.
Kelly BennettCORRESPONDENT
And if you're looking to save on your utility bills, besides just the windows open season that I referred to, there are some ways to keep your home warm without running the heater all day when you get to that point.
Kelly BennettCORRESPONDENT
Ashley England is with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Kelly BennettCORRESPONDENT
I do not know if you've noticed, but there's a certain president in Mississippi today, Rebecca.
Kelly BennettCORRESPONDENT
I haven't heard.
173 more episodes mention Tennessee Valley Authority.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.