TVA

= TVA During The Great Depression =  The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority starts with Muscle Shoals, a stretch of the Tennessee River where the river drops 140 feet in 30 miles. That drop in elevation created the rapids or "shoals" that the area is named for and made passage farther upstream impossible.

QUESTION: What were the effects of the program on the people? ANSWER: The Tennesse Valley Authority provided Electricity Generation, Fertilizer Manufacturement, and Economic development into the Tennesse Valley, a region hit hard by the Great Depression. The Tennesse Valley Authority opened up jobs for members of the region and those that surrounded the Tennesse Valley and bettered the quality of life from previous years of the Depression. T.V.A affected mostly Tennesse, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky along with small parts of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. The general population of these regions were able to gain jobs in Electricity manufacturing companies which provided electric power to around 8.5 million people in the Tennesse Valley region alone. Some families before this had only $100 to live on per year! It was safe to say that the economy was in shambles but the TVA was a ray of light in the dark of the depression. "The T.V.A. also created jobs for unemployed men in conservation, economic development and social programs such as library services for surrounding areas." During the years of the Depression no one had thought to use natural resources for power. Through the Tennessee Valley Authority, Natural resources were taken advantage of making the program a great leader in power supplying and regulation.

QUESTION: What were the effects of the program on the people? ANSWER: "As a supplier of electric power, the agency was given authority to enter into long-term (20 years) contracts for the sale of power to government agencies and private entities, to construct electric power transmission lines to areas not otherwise supplied and to establish rules and regulations for electricity retailing and distribution. The TVA is thus both a power supplier and a regulator. Today the TVA is the nation's largest public power company, providing electric power to nearly 8.5 million customers in the Tennessee Valley. It acts primarily as an electric power wholesaler, selling to 158 retail power distributors and 61 directly served industrial or government customers. Power comes from dams providing hydroelectric power, fossil fuel plants, nuclear power plants, combustion turbines and wind turbines."This supply of electric power around the U.S. allowed T.V.A to become a nationwide program that effected regions all across the country. TVA created power which to that point had not been utilized greatly. By taking advantage of these resources, more money was generated by the program which in turn circulated back into the economy, strengthening it greatly. By the effects of the Tennessee Valley Authority, today hydroelectric power is a enormous business that brings in great amounts revenue for the U.S. If it were not for the ideas of the TVA during the era of the New Deal, the use of natural resources, such as dams, and turbidity currents were not be what it is today. media type="youtube" key="TrlPHr4GzVs" height="344" width="425" align="center"