The coldest winter storm in the Tennessee Valley in nearly three decades just before Christmas this past year froze instrument lines for 38 of TVA s power generators, cutting off 6,700 megawatts of power and forcing TVA to impose rolling blackouts for the first time in its 90-year history.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority was not prepared for the sudden drop in temperatures and high winds in December that left thousands of residents in the cold from the worst power outage in the TVA s 90-year history.