Today Cleveland Utilities serves over 25,000 customers and employees only 170 people. Cleveland Utilities is a local community-owned public power distributor. This means we have the responsibility of selling and distributing electricity without making a profit. We do not make our own electricity. However, we buy our electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Electricity is produced in three major ways.
Hydroelectric Generation uses water. First, you build a dam to accumulate water and form a lake or a river. When the water comes through the dam, the force is used to turn a turbine. Nuclear Generation uses the process of splitting Uranium Atoms. This process produces heat which is used to boil water and produce stem.