2009 by the Numbers

Below is a quick glimpse of TVA by the numbers for 2009. Information is available for energy, environment, economic development and the corporation as a whole.

Energy

Customers

• {local} local power distributors
• {large} large industrial customers
• {federal} federal installations
• Service to over {people} million people in {counties} counties throughout Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

Generation Assets

• {fossil} fossil plants ({fossilunits} units)
• {nuclear} nuclear plants ({nukeunits} units)
• {hydro} hydro plants ({hydrounits} units)
• {pumped} pumped-storage plant ({pumpunits} units)
• {turnbine} combustion-turbine plants ({turnbineunits} units)
• {combcycle} combined-cycle plants ({combunits} units)
• {diesel} diesel-generator sites ({dieselunits} units)
• {solar} solar energy sites
• {wind} wind-energy site
• {digestor} digestor-gas site
• {biomass} biomass-cofiring site

Generation Output

• {kilowatts} million kilowatts (net summer capability) capacity
• {billionkw} billion kilowatt-hours of electric power provided to communities and businesses across the TVA region.

Fuel Used

• {coal} million tons of coal
• {naturalgas} billion cubic feet of natural gas
• {water} trillion cubic feet of water through Chickamauga hydroelectric plant just north of Chattanooga, TN.

Transmission

• Over {miles} miles of transmission lines (enough to span the continent six times)
• {towers} steel, wood and concrete towers
• {reliability}% reliability

Environment

• {dams} dams ({gendams} used for generation)
• {shoreline} miles of shoreline
• Over {wateracres} acres of water
• {landacres} acres of land
• More than {achaeology} archaeological sites
• ${investmnet} billion invested in equipment to reduce emissions

Economic Development

• Helped attract or retain almost {jobs} jobs
• Leveraged nearly ${capital} billion in capital investment

Corporate Information

• Corporation owned by United States of America
• Founded in 1933
• Receives no tax dollars
• {emplouyees} employees
• Operating Revenues of ${operating} billion
• Paid more than ${taxes} million in tax equivalent payments