Questions
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federal corporation that generates electricity and owns the transmission network across this state. It does not bill you. Around 150 local power companies buy wholesale from TVA and distribute locally, and one of those is on your bill. For a project of this size both TVA and your distributor have to be able to serve it.
No, and anybody telling you it does is overselling. It makes the question simpler to describe, because there is one transmission owner rather than several utilities with different appetites. It does not remove the work of establishing whether capacity exists and can be extended.
It can matter. A distributor already serving substantial industrial load is in a different position to a small cooperative that has never handled anything of this scale. It does not rule your ground out, but it is a real part of the assessment and it is better raised early than discovered late.
Often, and we would rather say so than let you hope. Terrain excludes more Tennessee ground than any other single factor. What matters is whether there is a genuinely flat contiguous block, and a smaller flat parcel beats a much larger sloping one every time.
Some of it is, and it would be dishonest to wave it away. Projects in this state have drawn organised local opposition, particularly where on-site generation raised air quality questions. If you go forward you are stepping into an argument that already exists, and you should know that going in.
Before anything else, ask them two questions that are specific to this state: which local power company would serve the site, and whether they have talked to TVA about capacity in that area. Anyone who has done real work will answer both without hesitating. Anyone who cannot has not looked at your ground in any meaningful way. After that, take the letter to a Tennessee attorney and sign nothing in the meantime, including anything from us.
Often nothing. Many arrangements involve part of a property while the remainder carries on as before. Raise it in the first conversation rather than assuming, and we would far rather you did.
Tell us about your property. There is no cost and no obligation. If it does not fit, we will tell you plainly.
These take about two minutes. Skip anything you do not know. Guessing is fine.
Thank you. We will review the property and come back to you with a plain answer either way, including if it does not fit.