The Current

This blog was updated on August 9, 2023 to reflect the program’s new name: Small Business Uplift. In collaboration with local power companies and community partners, Small Business Uplift (formerly known as Community Centered Growth) from TVA EnergyRight® helps business owners with free energy-related upgrades and resources. The Industrial Age in America put downtowns on […]

This blog was updated on August 9, 2023 to reflect the program’s new name: Small Business Uplift. In collaboration with local power companies and community partners, Small Business Uplift (formerly known as Community Centered Growth) from TVA EnergyRight® helps business owners with free energy-related upgrades and resources. It’s hard to tell if the delicious smells […]

Just over 450 students and teachers pour into the Pickett County K-8 gym for an all-school assembly. Their voices echo off the concrete walls. Many don’t notice the large overhead gym lights, except for a few students – and principal Julia Barber has always been concerned for them. “The old lights in the gym, the […]

This blog was updated on August 9, 2023 to reflect the program’s new name: Small Business Uplift. In collaboration with local power companies and community partners, Small Business Uplift (formerly known as Community Centered Growth) from TVA EnergyRight® helps business owners with free energy-related upgrades and resources. Standing in a line 20 people long for […]

Brian Turner is up before the sun rises over the Sequatchie Valley in Middle Tennessee. His family is still sleeping as he drives through the thick morning fog to his father-in-law’s farm to help corral about 40 cattle for a morning weigh-in. He also sets out the feed and cuts some additional hay.  “Nothing you […]

This blog was updated on August 9, 2023 to reflect the program’s new name: Small Business Uplift. In collaboration with local power companies and community partners, Small Business Uplift (formerly known as Community Centered Growth) from TVA EnergyRight® helps business owners with free energy-related upgrades and resources. The downtown square in Sheffield, Alabama is an […]

The amount of energy needed to power an entire school district can be hard to fathom, but it’s Bruce Rasnick’s job to make sure every student, teacher and staff member gets the electricity they need to power the computers in the classroom, ovens in the cafeteria and the field lights for a Friday night game. […]

Alvin C. York Institute is one of the many rural schools that dot the Tennessee Valley, tucked in the Upper Cumberland of Jamestown, Tennessee. Its students are affectionately known as the “boys and girls of the mountain.” Derwin Wright has spent decades at this school as a teacher, coach and now as an assistant principal. […]

A vegan restaurant nestled in the heart of East Nashville is slowly coming back to life after the one-two punch of the March 3 EF3 tornado followed quickly by the shutdown due to COVID-19.

The engineer with a PhD who lost a job contract and health insurance. A single parent who didn’t pay December’s rent to buy Christmas gifts for the kids. A young man who lost his partner in a car accident. An elderly woman fighting breast cancer.  A family living out of their car. These faces, these […]

COVID-19 has impacted communities throughout the Valley and the look and feel of our everyday lives has changed. Alongside your local power company, TVA EnergyRight is a trusted energy advisor during this time when your energy use may be different. We here to offer energy resources, such as low-to-no cost tips, advice and access to […]