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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). TVA. Americans began to support the idea of the government owning the utilities in the 1920’s. Most people thought privately owned power companies charged too much for power.

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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  1. Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)

  2. TVA • Americans began to support the idea of the government owning the utilities in the 1920’s. • Most people thought privately owned power companies charged too much for power. • Most of the private companies in the Tennessee Valley were bought by the Federal Government. • Others shut down. • Government regulations passed to prevent competition. • Economic Libertarians believed the government shouldn’t have anything to with the electricity generation business. • One of the first federal hydropower agencies.

  3. TVA • Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. • Was created to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley • FDR signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 1933. • TVA was seen as a regional economic development agency that would rapidly modernize the region's economy and society.

  4. Roosevelt signing TVA act

  5. TVA • Includes most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and some of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. • It was the first large regional planning agency of the federal government and remains the largest. • The leader is David Lilienthal.

  6. TVA(today) • Provides electric power to over nine million customers in the Tennessee Valley. • It acts primarily as an electric power wholesaler. • The power comes from dams, fossil fuel plants, nuclear power plants, combustion turbines, wind turbines, and solar panels.

  7. Wilson’s dam

  8. REA • Nearly 90 percent of urban people had electricity by the 1930’s, but only 10 percent of rural people did. • Private utility companies claimed it was too expensive to stretch electric lines to rural areas. • They even believed most farmers were too poor to afford electricity. • The Roosevelt believed that if private utility companies could not supply electricity to rural areas, then it was up to the government to do so. • Court cases involving TVA in the 1930s concerned the government's involvement in public utilities.

  9. REA • In 1935 REA was created to bring electricity to rural areas. • By 1939 the REA had had established 417 rural electric cooperatives • served 288,000 households. • The actions of the REA pushed private utilities to stretch electric lines to the countryside as well. • By 1939 rural households with electricity had risen to 25 percent. • Farmers needed more electricity than city people so that made up for the cost of stretching electric lines to the rural areas.

  10. REA • REA was abolished in 1994. • The Rural Utilities Services took over.

  11. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1653.html • http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm • http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0842689.html

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