5 days ago · "Jeff Lyash’s leadership at TVA has played a key role in strengthening energy reliability, affordability, and innovation across the region. Under his guidance, TVA has supported economic growth, helped attract new jobs and investment, and advanced efforts in nuclear energy and sustainability. On behalf of the University of Tennessee, I want ...

Jeff Lyash is president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Appointed by the Board of Directors in February 2019, Lyash leads the nation’s largest public utility in its mission of service to the people of the Tennessee Valley region.

4 days ago · Lyash has also drawn scrutiny from clean energy advocates. He helped lay plans to replace several of TVA’s aging coal plants with another fossil fuel, natural gas. Several of TVA’s proposals for new natural gas plants have prompted criticism from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And the utility’s targets fell short of former ...

4 days ago · Lyash, 63, often speaks of TVA's public power model, established in the TVA Act of 1933, as a personal passion that brought him to the Tennessee Valley. “I grew up in the small coal-mining town ...

4 days ago · TVA said in a statement confirming Lyash’s departure that it has some of the lowest energy costs and highest reliability in the nation, with retail rates that are lower than 80 percent the ...

1 day ago · TVA kept rates relatively low. But Lyash came under fire for blackouts in 2022 and drew Trump’s ire for his multimillion-dollar salary. Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Jeffrey Lyash said Friday ...

4 days ago · Before joining TVA, Mr. Lyash served as president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation, one of the largest electricity generating companies in Canada with a diverse fleet of nuclear, hydroelectric ...

5 days ago · After an industry career spanning more than 40 years, Jeff Lyash, Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO, has announced his plans to retire no later than the end of the fiscal year, TVA said on Jan. 31. Lyash has served as TVA’s CEO for nearly six years and will continue to lead TVA until the Board of Directors selects a successor.

4 days ago · Staff photo / TVA President and CEO Jeff Lyash speaks about the Home Energy Upgrade program at a news conference June 12, 2019. At left is Hazel Benford, a homeowner who benefited from the program.

4 days ago · Under Lyash’s leadership, the TVA also became the first utility company to obtain approval from the U.S. Nuclear regulatory commission for an early site permit to potentially construct and ...