News & Events

Here we grow again. Stacey joins the team.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee – March 06, 2024 – Seven States Power Corporation has further enhanced its ability to engage and serve LPCs in the Tennessee Valley by adding a new staff member. Stacey Painter has joined Seven States as an Accounting Specialist. Seven States continues to expand its staff size and has cemented its role as a trusted technology provider and innovation partner for its member-owners: the 153 local power companies in the Tennessee Valley. “Our growing team is focused on delivering

Seven States Seeks DOE GRIP Grant for Battery Storage and Microgrids

As part of Seven States’ continuing role in building the energy system of the future, we have identified battery energy storage as a critical technology for ensuring a resilient grid – today, tomorrow, and in the future. As part of our ongoing efforts to deploy 300MW of battery energy storage, Seven States Power Corporation submitted a concept paper under the DOE GRIP Grant opportunity. The concept consisted of partnering with 20+ local power companies (LPCs) to install multiple battery storage units

Here We Grow Again!

To keep up with increasing demand for its products and services, Seven States has welcomed industry expert James Trott to its team while announcing a Valley-wide search for another new role: Vice President of Grid Resilience & Operations. Trott joins Seven States from Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (“DREMC”), an electric cooperative based in Shelbyville, TN, where he most recently served as IT Telecommunications Administrator. As Seven States’ Technology Project Manager, a new role announced late last year, Trott will provide

Seven States President & CEO Presents at 2024 NRECA CEO Close-Up

Betsey Kirk McCall, Seven States’ President & CEO, recently attended the 2023 NRECA CEO Close-Up event in Phoenix, AZ, where she shared her experience as a leader of a cooperative that is building the Tennessee Valley’s grid of the future. This annual event is the premier conference for America’s electric cooperatives that attracts more than 800 co-op CEOs, GMs, and industry experts to share ideas and best practices. McCall spoke at a breakout session titled “Cooperatives Navigating Electric Avenue: Understanding New

Industry Expert Joins Growing Team at Seven States Power Corporation

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee – January 2, 2024 – Today, Seven States Power Corporation has welcomed James Trott, an information technology specialist with over a decade of IT experience, to its growing team of Valley-based technology experts. Trott will serve as Technology Project Manager, a new role announced late last year to provide additional technical and project management support for the cooperative organization’s expanding portfolio of products and services. Trott joins Seven States from Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (“DREMC”), an electric cooperative

U.S. DOE Providing Rebates for Transformers & Extended Product Systems

Great news for Tennessee Valley LPCs: The U.S. DOE Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) is providing rebates for the replacement of qualified energy inefficient transformers with qualified energy efficient transformers and for expenditures made by qualified entities for the purchase or installation of a qualified extended product system. The Energy Efficient Transformer Rebate Program aims to help qualified entities such as domestic manufacturers, utilities, hospitals, schools, and other operators replace qualified energy inefficient distribution transformers with qualified energy

2023 Year in Review

Seven States is solving technology challenges incrementally with each LPC while solving them at scale for the Valley. To date, we have partnered with 88 LPCs on a wide variety of projects, including: Deployed 182 EV charging ports (283 in the pipeline) that have fueled +32,800 charging sessions with 550,000 kWh of energy Secured $15M in grants for EV charger deployments Installed 4 unique solar installations, a microgrid, and executing a plan to deploy 300 MW of distributed battery storage on

Seven States, Partners Install Solar Charging Stations at National Corvette Museum

Seven States Power Corporation ended its 2023 Annual Meeting at the National Corvette Museum by celebrating a unique and sustainable new feature on the Corvette Campus: three new solar charging stations installed by Seven States that offer visitors a place to relax and recharge personal devices like cell phones. The new solar charging stations allow visitors to charge their devices for free via power generated from solar panels on top of the canopy. Batteries in the structure store energy for charging

CDE Lightband and National Corvette Museum Receive Awards at Seven States 2023 Annual Meeting

Innovation is essential if the Valley is to keep up with evolving consumer demand. Fortunately, our region is filled with leaders actively adopting new technology by partnering with Seven States Power Corporation. At the recent Seven States Annual Meeting, the 2023 Spark Award was awarded to the General Manager of CDE Lightband, Brian Taylor, and the Innovation Award was presented to the National Corvette Museum. CDE Lightband has proven itself to be an innovation leader of the Valley by installing four

U.S. Department of Energy Opens Registration for Free Cybersecurity Training for Utilities

Our grid is under cyberattack and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting your LPC to attend a free, 3-day training that has been used to train utilities to defend against cyber-attacks in areas of conflict. DOE has asked Seven States to share this unique opportunity with our member-owners to help harden the Valley’s grid. Registration is open to technical practitioners from all electric utilities, including electric cooperatives, public power, investor-owned, and tribal utilities. Each of the six training events