Tennessee has some of the highest hydroelectric power potential in the United States. Tennessee ranks among the top 20 energy-consuming States in the country both in absolute terms and on a per capita basis.
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- The federally administered Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) owns virtually all of the State's electricity generation assets.
- A 100-million-gallon-per-year ethanol plant is currently under construction near Obion, Tennessee, and is expected to be operational by the late summer or early fall of 2008.
- Tennessee is one of the top hydroelectricity-generating States east of the Rocky Mountains.
- The single-unit Watts Bar Nuclear Plant began commercial operation in 1996 and was the last new nuclear reactor to be brought online in the United States.