News & Updates

Consistent with TVA's request, SREA submitted solutions-oriented recommendations and comments, with the strategic goal of helping TVA provide affordable, reliable, resilient, sustainable and increasingly cleaner power to the Tennessee Valley region.

As we're seeing some very cold temperatures across the Southeast, we're sharing these resources to help you monitor for outages and other reliability issues. Poweroutage.us: Checks for power outages across the country. You can click on individual states and get county-by-county breakdowns GridStatus: Phenomenal resource with...

From December 21-26, 2022, Winter Storm Elliott tested the South's power grid resilience under extremely cold conditions when electricity demand was very high across the region. The Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA) commissioned Telos Energy to review performance within the Southern...

Transmission planning may not seem like the most glamorous topic, but it’s potentially a huge stumbling block to planning critical grid upgrades. As we push toward a more resilient, reliable, and sustainable grid, the Southeast faces a critical moment in determining...

The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, and with this transformation comes the need for robust planning. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Order No. 1920 addresses this by requiring transmission providers to develop multiple long-term scenarios during regional transmission planning. This order...

There’s a growing focus on electric transmission at the federal level. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program has allocated about $5.6 billion in funding across the country to strengthen the grid. Additionally, they’ve identified National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors...

The Southeastern Regional Transmission Planning (SERTP) process encompasses nine utilities across the southeast. SERTP is meant to be a regional process designed to address regional problems “rather than the public utility transmission provider planning only for its own needs or the needs...