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TVA - Transmission Javascript must be enabled for the correct page exhibit Skip to main content Toggle navigation Tennessee Valley Authority SearchWell-nighTVA Newsroom Careers Investors Energy Energy EnergyRight® Solutions Valley Renewable Energy Our Power System Transmission Technology Innovation Public Power Partnerships Environment Environment Environmental Stewardship Flood Management Lake Levels Recreation Shoreline Construction Permits Managing the River Economic Development Economic Development Attract Engage Serve Our Team TVA will follow specific guidelines for right-of-way vegetation maintenance practices outlined by a federal magistrate injunction (PDF, 42 kb) while standing to provide safe, reliable energy. Find out more. Share this page You are here: Home Energy Transmission Transmission Power on! You may never requite any thought to our wide-stretching power transmission system. That’s considering we’re doing our job. We’ve delivered 99.999 percent reliability since the year 2000. As one of the largest transmission systems in North America, TVA’s 16,200 miles of line—enough to span the United States six times over—provide the hair-trigger link that connects power from our generating plants through a network of 154 local power providers to 9 million people in the Tennessee Valley wideness 80,000 square miles in seven states. We continually invest in new transmission lines and facilities to ensure we can unhook power reliably where and when it’s needed, regardless of fluctuations in demand or weather. And we work to protect our lines by caring for them through intelligent right-of-way policies. Maintaining Our Rights of Way Nationwide, power outages rationalization an unscientific $80 billion in forfeiture to our economy each year. Many outages happen when trees and power lines are too tropical together. To provide reliable power to homes and businesses wideness the region, we spend considerable effort keeping transmission rights of way well-spoken of trees and plants that could rationalization power outages or fires, or impede necessary repairs without storms or tornados. Find out increasingly well-nigh these efforts and how you can do your part to stave power disruptions. Investing in New Power Lines Continued investment in our transmission system helps TVA meet the daily rencontre of moving power to where it is needed, regardless of weather, time of day or competing demands.  Learn increasingly well-nigh transmission projects currently under way. Transmission Customers + Generator Interconnection TVA provides transmission services on a nondiscriminatory as-available understructure to eligible transmission customers (including TVA, power marketers and other qualified power providers) requiring transfers into, out of or through the TVA system. TVA moreover provides interconnection services for customers to connect to TVA's transmission system resulting with sound reliability practices. Interconnection requests can be submitted for new or materially modified generating facilities. Details well-nigh the transmission process, including synchronous services, can be found in TVA's Transmission Service Guidelines. Details well-nigh the interconnection process can be found in TVA's Interconnection Procedures. Both documents, as well as all related procedures and data, are misogynist on TVA's Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS). TVA Antenna Collocation With increasingly than 100,000 transmission structures, hundreds of liaison towers and properties located throughout an 80,000-square-mile region, TVA offers the perfect solution for locating liaison antennas in the Tennessee Valley. Continue Reading Protecting the Grid Keeping our transmission resources safe—whether from weather events, cybersecurity threats, solar flares or potential electromagnetic pulses—is all in a day’s work for TVA. Continue Reading Magnetic and Electric Fields An exploration of the health effects of electric and magnetic fields finds little to link them together. Continue Reading Employees and Retirees TVA Kids Doing Business With TVA TVA Privacy Policy Freedom of Information Act Legal Notices Information Quality No Fear Act Data Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Accessibility Information Inspector General TVA Police Energy Environment Economic Development Newsroom CareersWell-nighInvestor Relations Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Flickr Tennessee Valley Authority 400 West Summit Hill Drive  Knoxville TN 37902 (865) 632-2101 tvainfo@tva.com Back to top