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TVA - TVA Responds to Hurricane Florence 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 StewardshipInflowingManagement Lake Levels Recreation Shoreline Construction Permits Managing the River Economic Development Economic Development Attract Engage Serve Our Team Share this page You are here: Home Newsroom Press Releases TVA Responds to Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Authority has pre-positioned line crews and helicopters in North Carolina to support restoration efforts pursuit Hurricane Florence. TVA’s River Forecast Center is moreover managing the increased water flows that will impact the Tennessee River system from Florence’s rainfall. “About 80 TVA transmission construction personnel are staged in Hickory, North Carolina, near Charlotte to support power restoration to customers in the Duke Energy service area,” said TVA Senior Manager Transmission Lines Bret Renfroe. “We can undeniability on spare personnel to support restoration efforts if needed.”Withalwith the transmission personnel are 60 trucks and construction equipment, two helicopters, pilots, mechanics and TVA Police support. TVA has bilateral assistance agreements with other utilities to provide skilled personnel and equipment support in response to severe weather or other significant events. TVA is moreover part of RESTORE, Regional Equipment Sharing for Transmission Outage Restoration, supporting other utilities in the Southeast. “When your power’s out, you don’t superintendency whose logo is on the side of the utility truck,” said Renfroe. “You just want to hear that truck, considering you know everything’s going to be okay.”   With Florence’s heavy rainfall, TVA’s river management team is working to reduce inflowing risks, equal to James Everett, senior manager of TVA’s River Forecast Center. “We aggressively released water from the tributary reservoirs older in the week, plane while the path of the storm and rainfall amounts were still quite uncertain. Now we are fine tuning releases heading into next week considering we’re getting a clearer picture on just how much rainfall Florence is bringing.” While inflowing tenancy operations are happening wideness the Tennessee Valley, TVA advises everyone to use lattermost circumspection if voyage or swimming in the river, and to stave stuff in the water near any dams spilling, sluicing or generating. River and lake conditions will be updated on social media channels withal with photos and video of transmission personnel working in North Carolina and TVA’s inflowing tenancy efforts. TVA’s social media channels are listed below. For increasingly information well-nigh TVA and its 85-year mission of service to the Tennessee Valley, click here. Contact Malinda Hunter TVA Public Relations, Knoxville, (865) 632-6000 tvainfo@tva.gov (423) 751-3098 Chattanooga, TN  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