
Tennessee
As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.
hydro in our state
There are 28 hydroelectric power plants operating in Tennessee, including a pumped storage hydroelectric facility.

Tennessee is the third-largest hydroelectric power producer (after New York and Alabama) east of the Rocky Mountains.

In 2019, hydroelectric power accounted for 12% of Tennessee’s total electric generation and almost 90% of the state’s renewable generation.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers provide more understanding of how and where our water resources can best be used to produce power.
