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Senior Vice President of Outage Planning and Execution

Ron Loving is Senior Vice President of Outage Planning and Execution for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He reports to TVA’s President and Chief Operating Officer, and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is responsible for improving outage performance by implementing and standardizing best outage practices across COO organizations. He is a member of TVA’s Executive Committee.

Loving has been with TVA for 31 years and has served as an officer since 1994, when he was appointed head of TVA’s Washington office as Vice President of Government Relations. In that role he successfully represented TVA to the 104th Congress, the Administration, and various state and federal officials.

Before assuming his current duties, Loving served three years as Senior Vice President of Performance Initiatives and was responsible for the executive management and oversight of key performance and change initiatives within TVA. He also served for three years as Vice President of Synterprise Group, an entrepreneurial business group that provided engineering and business services to other TVA organizations.

Loving began his career with TVA as an electrical engineer and spent eight years on the design of TVA’s nuclear and fossil power plants. He later assumed different management positions and was responsible for areas such as customer service, transmission operation and maintenance, public affairs, total quality management, and energy conservation. In the early 1980s, he led the development of TVA’s successful program to reach low-income consumers with energy conservation services.

Loving is a graduate of three community leadership programs in Tennessee. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Chattanooga Urban League, the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, and the Carpetbag Theatre. Additionally, he has served on chamber of commerce boards in Memphis, Jackson, and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Loving earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Southern University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Memphis.