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TVA EnergyRight cooks up energy savings for Alabama restaurant
View moreThis 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 […]
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Bledsoe County Schools transform their energy training into cool savings
View moreBrian 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 […]
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Small Business Uplift helps the heart of Sheffield find its rhythm
View moreThis 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 […]
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Metro Nashville Public Schools harness the power of Demand Response to meet savings goal
View moreThe 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. […]
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Alvin C. York Institute makes the grade, saving over $40,000 in TVA EnergyRight School Uplift pilot program
View moreAlvin 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. […]
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Safety top of mind as businesses reopen in The Valley
View moreA 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.
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Hydroponic garden growing a reliable food source for Huntsville families in need
View moreThe 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 […]