Connected Communities

The Connected Communities Program is being retired. Resources will remain available on this site through December 2026. To learn more about programs for communities, please contact your local customer or government relations manager. For any near-term questions, please email [email protected].

TVA’s work to build a more reliable, affordable and secure energy system creates opportunities for communities to grow their economies, strengthen resilience and improve quality of life.

That’s why TVA created the Connected Communities initiative—to partner with local leaders in leveraging technology solutions that addressed pressing challenges and prepared communities to be active participants in a dynamic electric grid. Over several years, the initiative provided tools, resources and hands-on support that helped communities harness innovation to boost resilience during natural disasters, create good-paying jobs and improve energy affordability at home and at work.

The initiative lives on through the resources it created and the pilots and partnerships that continue to inspire new efforts—demonstrating that by building tomorrow together, we can all make progress faster.

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Resources to Help Your Community

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Community Opportunities

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Energy >

Explore innovative energy technologies and solutions to provide reliable and affordable energy for your community, and offer residents and businesses opportunities to reduce their energy costs.

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Resilience >

Ensure you have a plan and the right infrastructure in place to prepare for and recover from disasters, reduce disruptions to power and prevent cyber attacks to minimize impacts on your community.

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Ensure your local workforce is skilled and ready to support energy innovation and other technology-related businesses moving to our region. This can bring economic security for families in your community and help our region’s economic growth.

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Increase access to broadband, digital services and training to enable connected solutions and unlock internet-enabled services such as energy management.

Learn From Communities Making Progress

Expanding on the Connecting MHA pilot project, this phase further explores the benefits of connectivity, energy management education and a user-friendly demand response and energy monitoring platform for both residents and the utility.

Base Camp Coding Academy in rural Mississippi expanded its successful coding languages career training program and continues to serve a broad population of non-traditional adult students.

The Cheatham County School District installed a 40kW solar array plus a battery backup system and developed a solar tech training program to prepare current and future high school students for careers in solar.

This DOE-funded project is developing a planning framework with a community focus that uses distributed energy resources to provide more energy resilience in the face of power outages caused by extreme weather events.

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