(MURFREESBORO) Middle Tennessee Electric’s Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator Amy Byers told WGNS, “TVA successfully met record peak demand of approximately 34,500 megawatts Wednesday morning (1/17/2024) amid zero-degree temperatures across the Valley.”
TVA’s previous all-time peak demand record was just less than 33,482 megawatts (MW).
Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) also successfully met record peak demand, as the local electric cooperative’s system required about 2,300 MW. Its previous record was just more than 2,100 MW.
Like the other local power companies in the Tennessee Valley, MTE distributes power that TVA generates.
TVA's success in meeting the record demand comes on the heels of significant system improvements and expansion since December of 2022 when the agency lacked adequate capacity to meet customer demand and required local power companies to perform rolling blackouts to secure the power grid. It was the first time in the agency’s 90-year history it was unable to meet power demand.
About Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE)
Founded in 1936, MTE is the largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region and the second largest in the United States, serving more than 750,000 Tennesseans via 330,000+ accounts covering nearly 2,200 square miles in 11 Middle Tennessee counties, primarily Rutherford, Cannon, Williamson and Wilson. Municipalities served include Murfreesboro, Franklin, Brentwood, Smyrna, La Vergne, Lebanon and Mt. Juliet. MTE employs 520 people in six local offices and its Murfreesboro headquarters.
MTE’s subsidiary, United Communications, is a nationally recognized broadband company with a fiber network spanning more than 3,600 route miles, providing high-speed internet and phone services to portions of Williamson, Rutherford, Marshall, Bedford, Franklin, Wilson and Davidson counties.
