A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

TVA tensions have culminated in a cancelled gas project, a threat to fire TVA’s new CEO, and speculations that President Donald Trump may privatize — or seize control of — the nation’s oldest and largest public utility.

Oak Ridge officials late finding out about Senate amendment

A company aiming to open the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over the weekend.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced four nominees for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board, which for months has lacked a quorum because Trump fired some of former President Joe Biden’s picks.

The country’s largest public power provider is building a large-scale solar field on a closed coal ash site at its Shawnee Fossil Plant site in McCracken County. Tennessee Valley Authority officials say it’s the world’s first.

Analysts say part of President Donald Trump’s massive tax policy bill repealing most tax credits for clean energy will raise energy costs in Tennessee, threaten manufacturing jobs and increase planet-warming pollution.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is considering extending the life of its coal plants. Or, at least, that is what the utility is saying publicly.

The latest wave of executive orders from the desk of President Donald Trump seeks to speed up the development of the country’s nuclear energy infrastructure and overhaul the industry’s safety regulator, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. What does that mean for the future of energy in Kentucky?

The Tennessee Valley Authority had previously stated its intentions to retire its four coal plants in Kentucky and Tennessee by 2035. But now, the utility’s CEO said some of the plants could be operating “for the foreseeable future.”