Connected to the World
Up-to-date communications systems are highly affordable and widely available in the Innovation Valley, and utilities and energy resources provide superior reliability at below-average cost. Knoxville is the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest public power provider.
Communications- Fiber optics
- Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
- Digital subscriber line
- Cable Internet
- Broadband
- Multi-carrier local telecom, digital, and analog wireless services
- The Tennessee Valley Authority supplies electricity through local distributors and also offers direct service to a number of large industries.
- Industrial rates are 19 percent below the national average; commercial rates are 11 percent below average.
- TVA has achieved 99.999 percent reliability every year since 2000.
- TVA has never dropped firm load to any customer.
- East Tennessee Natural Gas supplies most gas distributed in the region.
- Large-volume gas is available with prior notification and approval.
- Interruptible gas is available, with appropriate backup systems in place.
- Large gas users can purchase gas on the open market and pay a modest delivery fee to local utility district.
