What benefits did the Tennessee Valley Authority bring about?

Answer 1

There were several benefits to the TVA (the MOST successful New Deal agency ever created)

1. It created dams which created jobs for thousands and thousands of unemployed men all alone the line.
2. Concrete masons were employed, high wire men, drivers, electricians, brick layers, etc...
3. It lowered the price of electricity greatly since the government controlled the price of electricity
4. It helped ALL electricity-related industries: referigerators, radios, fans, stoves, washing machines, dryers, all sold much more in that area thanks to cheap electricy.


And there you have it.

Answer 2

Some of the benefits of the TVA or the Tennessee Valley Authority were the jobs that were really needed at the time because of such high unemployment rate and a better method of bringing electricity to the areas in the mountains as opposed to one longgggggg cable feeding a whole town of electricity. It was just one of the better benefits of producing electricity from water and dams. Mostly TVA was just a goverment employment opportunity to give the unemployed a chance to work somewhere and earn some money, this was after the great depression i believe.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The most controversial activity of the TVA is the production and sale of electric power, which has been resisted by privately owned power companies. The TVA contracts with municipalities and cooperatives to supply wholesale power for distribution and has joined with them in purchasing the facilities of privately owned electric-utility companies in the region. These purchases have established an integrated power service area in which the TVA is the sole supplier of power. The TVA power system, which includes more than 50 dams, as well as coal-fired thermal plants and operable nuclear plants, possesses a huge generating capacity. Power is sold in bulk, about half to federal agencies and half to large industries and locally owned municipal and cooperative distribution systems; and electric rates in the Tennessee River valley are among the lowest in the nation. Because of critics' claims that the low rates are made possible by the TVA's tax exemption and lack of obligation to show a profit on its operations, a schedule of payments was worked out by which the TVA would refund to the national treasury over a period of years all federal electric-power investment in the valley. The TVA nuclear power plant program was seriously curtailed in the 1980s because of quality control problems and safety deficiencies in several plants already completed or under construction.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Besides the answers already given which are very valid,

1. Provided flood control throughout the region
2. made recreational areas available to more people.
3. increased the ability for industrial and agricultural growth