Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders says TVA is nation’s largest public utility with $11.25 Billion in operating revenues in 2009.

Did you know that the Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation’s largest public utility, has about 9 million consumers in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia? Here are some other interesting facts about TVA:
 Electric generation assets

• 11 fossil plants (59 units)
• 3 nuclear plants (6 units)
• 29 hydro plants (109 units)
• 1 pumped-storage plant (4 units)
• 9 combustion -turbine plants (87 units)
• 2 combined-cycle plants (6 units)
• 2 diesel-generator sites (9 units)
• 15 solar energy sites
• 1 wind-energy site
• 1 digestor-gas site
• 1 biomass-cofiring site

Generation output

• 33,716 million kilowatts (net summer capability) capacity
• 164 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power provided to communities and businesses across the TVA region.

Fuel Used

• 37 million tons of coal
• 84 billion cubic feet of natural gas
• 1 trillion cubic feet of water through Chickamauga hydroelectric plant just north of Chattanooga, TN.

Transmission

• Over 16,000 miles of transmission lines (enough to span the continent six times)
• 100,000 steel, wood and concrete towers

Environment

• 49 dams (29 used for generation)
• 11,000 miles of shoreline
• Over 600,000 acres of water
• 293,000 acres of land