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Executive Vice President, Transmission/Power Supply Group

Terry Boston is Executive Vice President of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Transmission/Power Supply Group. TVA is the nation’s largest electricity wholesaler and largest public power provider.

Boston is the senior officer responsible for the planning, building, operation, and maintenance of TVA’s transmission and power supply network. It includes 17,000 miles of transmission line, 1015 high voltage and extra high voltage substations and delivery points, and 30,000 communication control circuits.

Boston has focused on ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the TVA power system. He joined TVA as a power supply engineer in 1972, and was named head of the Power Supply Group in 1980. Over the next 16 years, he directed three TVA divisions in succession: Transmission, Regional Operations, and Electric System Reliability. He was named Senior Manager of Pricing in 1996 to prepare TVA for deregulation, and he assumed his current duties in 1999.

Boston is a member of the executive committee of the Electric Power Research Institute’s National Reliability Initiative, and he is Chairman of the SERC board of directors and executive committee. He has served for six years on the North American Electric Reliability Council’s Engineering Committee and Transmission Task Force, and is on the NERC Board/Stakeholders Committee. He is vice president of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems, and vice president of CERTS (the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions).

Boston holds a B.S. in engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. in engineering administration from the University of Tennessee, both magna cum laude.

He was chosen Tennessee Technological University’s Engineer of Distinction in 1997 and named to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Engineering Board in 1999.

Terry and his wife, Brenda, have three children, Rachel, Andrew, and Brian.