Our Story

About Our Organization

Seven States Power is an energy solutions cooperative that is owned and operated by the 153 local power companies across seven states of the Tennessee Valley.

Seven States Power Corporation, a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative, was designed in 2007 as a way for 150+ local power companies (LPCs) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to collaboratively solve challenges and enhance the way power is provided across the Tennessee Valley. A key aspect of our formation was the ability to finance utility-scale generation assets and add power supply to the growing grid without increasing TVA’s debt against their ceiling.

The first asset Seven States jointly owned with TVA was an 800MW combined cycle gas plant in Southhaven, MS, where it continues to operate today.  In 2013, Seven States sold its interest in the Southaven gas plant to TVA where it continues to operate today. Seven States' proven ability to co-own generation assets and secure funding provides an in-Valley solution to TVAs debt constraints without opening the Act or relying on non-LPC financial partners.

Over the next decade, marketplace evolutions began to drive new demand for distribution technologies, and Seven States expanded its mission of utility-scale generation to include distribution assets and services.  In 2018, we installed our first EV charging station in Chattanooga, TN, and in early 2020, we created Seven States Energy, LLC to enable the cooperative to provide an even higher level of service to our member-owners. Seven States Power Corporation became a common sense fit for designing, developing, and deploying technologies such as EV charging stations, solar power installations, battery energy storage systems and natural gas backup generators. 

To date, we have installed more than 500 EV charging ports across 6 different states, secured $500 million in state/federal funding, and deployed more than 15 solar and/or battery storage projects at locations across the region such as the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama, the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, University of Memphis, Rock City Gardens in Georgia, and Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee.  You can follow our progress by clicking on our Interactive Map here.

Today, Seven States continues as a non-profit membership cooperative corporation.  Our member-owners are the 153 LPCs (a combination of government municipalities and rural electric cooperatives) that purchase and distribute wholesale power from TVA. As a G&T cooperative, we have the ability to own and operate utility-scale power plants and transmission lines that provide electric supply to TVA and the LPCs while also continuing to design, develop, and deploy innovative technologies to support the distribution system. We are focused on three main areas: Custom Generation, Reliability as a Service, and Transportation Infrastructure. Together we are building and energizing the grid of the future with a shared mission to empower our member-owners to meet consumer demand for technology and innovation in an evolving utility marketplace.

As we look ahead, we are excited to be building additional power supply to benefit the Tennessee Valley.  In early 2025, Seven States was awarded $439 million from USDA to build, own and operate 250MW of new solar power. To date, it is the single largest federal investment awarded to the Valley for the development of new utility-scale generation.  With the help of this financing structure that leverages a 0% interest loan of $414 million and a $25 million grant, the Seven States project will create 100 construction jobs to deliver low-cost energy that will power approximately 113,000 homes and countless businesses.  These efforts ensure we are solving energy challenges in a way that creates additional power supply while maintaining affordability for homes, businesses, and communities.

Together, we are delivering tomorrow’s solutions today.