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December 5, 2025

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

GE Vernova
DOE Awards Holtec, TVA $800M to Build Pioneering SMRs
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $800 million to the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support construction of what may be the country’s first advanced small modular reactors.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
FPL Leading Southeast in Solar Buildout, SACE Report Finds

Solar power generation will expand strongly but not uniformly in Southeast states through the 2020s, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says in its annual solar report.

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Trump’s TVA Nominees Reject Privatization

Each of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors said they did not support the privatization of the utility or selling its assets, as feared by some environmentalists.

TVA
Nonprofits Warn of Potential TVA Privatization Ahead of Board Hearings
Environmental and social justice organizations worry the Tennessee Valley Authority could be headed toward privatization with a slate of board candidates assembled by the Trump administration.
TVA
D.C. Circuit Upholds FERC Approval of TVA’s Cumberland Switch to Gas
The Tennessee Valley Authority is closing in on a gas-for-coal swap at its Cumberland plant after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected environmental groups’ arguments against FERC’s environmental review.
Georgia Power
EPRI, NEI Update Roadmap for Advanced Nuclear Buildout
The Electric Policy Research Institute and Nuclear Energy Institute have issued an update to the Advanced Reactor Roadmap they launched in 2023.
NuScale
TVA, ENTRA1 to Collaborate on up to 6 GW of Nuclear Build
TVA and ENTRA1 Energy will develop new nuclear plants using the small modular reactor NuScale Power expects to deploy by 2030.
Kairos Power
Kairos Power, TVA Announce Nuclear PPA
A power purchase agreement between Kairos and TVA would deliver up to 50 MW from Kairos’ planned Hermes 2 Plant to the TVA grid, which powers Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.
Google
Google Strikes Demand Response Deals with I&M, TVA
Google reached demand response agreements with Indiana Michigan Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority to reduce power use by its data centers during critical periods.
TVA
Trump Nominates Four to TVA Board of Directors
The nine-member TVA board is down to three members due to the Senate’s failure to act on President Biden’s three nominations in 2024 and Trump’s firing of three sitting members in the spring of 2025. 

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