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TVPPA understands that working remotely presents a wide array of challenges. That’s why we are sharing a free “Remote Boot Camp” offered by Tennessee’s Roane State Community College with our members. The four-week boot camp, designed to help participants navigate...

The Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association (TenneSEIA) presented its 2020 Solar Champion Award to TVPPA member Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB) and Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Chris Hansen. The annual award recognizes individuals or entities that...

TVPPA members Clay Fowler of Florence Utilities, Mark Kimbell of Gallatin Department of Electricity and Ronnie McCullars of Albertville MUB teamed up with TVA’s Thomas Scott to win the 25th Annual Power Play Golf Tournament, played Sept. 28 in Muscle Shoals, Ala. The...

This TVPPA Annual Membership Meeting, held as a hybrid event allowing members to attend and vote in person or, for the first time ever, to attend and vote online, was held September 21 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. In his address to the membership, outgoing TVPPA Board...

TVPPA’s board of directors elected Huntsville Utilities President and CEO Wes Kelley as its new chairman during the meeting held September 21, 2020, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Kelley, a member of the TVPPA board of directors since 2017, replaces David Wade as chair. Wade,...

The 25th Annual Power Play Scholarship Association Golf Tournament is set for September 28 at The Shoals Schoolmaster Course in Muscle Shoals, Ala. Player and team registrations and hotel reservations for The Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa are open through Thursday,...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and many states extend states of emergency related to the health crisis, TVPPA continues seeking ways to keep its members connected, engaged, and educated by offering new hybrid and remote learning and conference experiences while...

The Tennessee Valley Public Power Association’s Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Monday, September 21. The meeting is scheduled to be a hybrid event with in-person attendance at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Start time for both the on-site...

This week TVPPA launched a new Research & Development (R&D) resource portal on the TVPPA.com website. The site provides a central location for local power companies to locate relevant R&D information to support their businesses, including access to materials developed...

In their continuing effort to provide maximal value to TVPPA’s membership, the Education & Training department has launched a new partnership with Dale Carnegie. This series of new courses will be offered free to all TVPPA members and focuses on adjusting to the...

The Tennessee Valley Public Power Association released the following statement in support of TVA’s decision to return excess revenue to its 153 local power company customers in the form of a 2.5% wholesale base rate credit. TVA’s Board of Directors approved the credit...

Registration for TVPPA’s Utility Safety & Security Conference is now open here. The virtual conference will take place on September 23-24. Featured speakers include host and keynote speaker, comedian Don McMillan; NRECA senior director for regulatory affairs, Martha...

TVPPA’s Engineering, Operations and Technology (EO&T) Conference previously scheduled as a hybrid in-person and virtual event on August 19-21, 2020 at the Chattanooga Convention Center has been canceled due to recent developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

Each October power companies nationwide celebrate the value of community-owned power, giving the Tennessee Valley’s local power companies a platform for sharing the benefits with their consumer audience. In anticipation of APPA’s Public Power Week, October 4-11, and...

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperative (MTEMC) announced yesterday that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has approved its merger with Mufreesboro Electric Department (MED). After years of negotiations and discussions including numerous listening...

This year’s virtual Valley Rally, scheduled for June 15-17, highlights the resilient approach of TVPPA and its member organizations. As developments around the COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that travel to Washington, D.C. would not be an option, the TVPPA staff and...

As communities around the Valley begin to reopen and adapt to new standards for doing business in the age of COVID-19, TVPPA’s Education & Training team will resume in-person courses in mid-June. Online classes will continue to be offered as well. TVPPA is...

In mid-March, at the same time Coronavirus was bringing new challenges, and in turn we were all seeking new ways of doing business, TVPPA was welcoming a new team member equal to the challenges that lay ahead. Publications & Content Manager Dawn Sloan-Downes had...

The latest edition of TVPPA Magazine will land in mailboxes this week. In this latest issue, TVPPA staff take a closer look at resilience, explore how members have built more resilient cultures and the role of succession planning and knowledge transfer in creating and...

Huntsville Utilities senior vice president for customer care, John Olshefski recently shared his thoughts about unsung essential workers in an op-ed piece published in the May 22nd edition of The Valley Weekly. Olshefski, a retired U.S. Army Colonel who has worked at...

Distributors Insurance Corporation (DIC), TVPPA’s wholly owned subsidiary, announced today utilities that earned the honor of qualifying for DIC’s Safety Recognition Program. To be eligible, a DIC-insured utility must have had no workers’ compensation claims during...

The Tennessee Valley Lineman Rodeo Board of Directors made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 rodeo. Because of ongoing uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the board agreed they could not protect participants nor attendees from the potential spread of...

TVPPA’s Valley Rally, the organization’s annual visit to Washington, D.C. to help keep the interests of members in front of their legislative representatives, will take on a different look this year. Amidst the uncertainty around ongoing pandemic-related operational...

Safety. Reliability. Workforce Development. System Improvement. All TVPPA members strive to achieve these every day but twenty-one of our members have been recognized on a national level for excelling in each of these areas. Eleven power utilities in the Tennessee...