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The Tennessee Valley Authority has plans to build or expand more than a dozen gas plants over the next decade. TVA finished the Colbert Combustion Turbine, shown above, in 2023.

Kyoto Fusioneering is moving its U.S. headquarters here to partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the longtime hub of nuclear and energy research. It's building a facility where fusion companies can test a component of their designs for future power plants.

TVA, the nation’s largest public utility is moving forward with a long-term plan focused on building more gas plants. The TVA Board, the utility’s only regulator, with members all appointed by President Donald Trump and trained by TVA staff, approved a draft “Integrated Resource Plan” on Thursday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority changed the way it charges data centers for electricity this week, but the utility did not show its math on how it will

The Earth, sun and moon will align for the deepest partial lunar eclipse anywhere on the planet until New Year’s Eve 2028. About 96% of the moon will fall into Earth’s shadow.

Noise pollution may be reaching dangerous levels for residents living near the Memphis-Mississippi border. This area of split governance is the home of

Tennessee faces another dangerous heatwave. It arrives as an investigation finds the state likely has five times more heat-related deaths than counted in official tallies.

Stellarator machines have magnetic coils that loop around the plasma.

Construction is underway on a $2.5 billion gas plant near the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal plant that caused a major ash spill in 2008. The new facility, if completed, will burn methane delivered by a 122-mile pipeline being built by Enbridge.

Electric vehicles accounted for about 5% of all cars sold in Tennessee from 2025 to mid-2026.