TVA's previous power demand record was 34,577 megawatts ... including new units at the Paradise plant in Kentucky and Colbert plant in Alabama that came online just before last winter's storm.

TVA has spent millions on insulation and heated cables to avoid a repeat of 2022's Winter Storm Elliott, whose blasting winds caked power plants with ice and forced TVA to order rolling blackouts ...

The $800 million grant is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Program and will go ...