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Acting Vice President, Performance Initiatives

Anda Ray has 20 years of experience with TVA. She is currently the Acting Vice President of Performance Initiatives, responsible for executive oversight and alignment of TVA’s performance management processes. Ray chairs the Project Review Committee, which is the approval body for TVA’s capital and O&M projects.

Ray previously served as the director of the Public Power Institute, which is focused on new technology that improves the way power is produced, delivered, and used. In that position she helped integrate renewable power sources into TVA’s generation portfolio by initiating the construction of the first large wind turbines in the southeastern United States. She was also instrumental in establishing TVA’s ability to offer Green Power Switch, another first in the Southeast.

She participated on a national Biomass Advisory Committee chaired by the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture and helped draft the “Roadmap for Biomass Technologies in the United States.” During the beginning of the electricity restructuring debates in the mid-1990s, Ray served on several TVA corporate strategic development teams.

Ray previously managed various organizations, ranging from generation and transmission technology development to new product development. These areas included responsibility for several large projects, such as installation of a distributed control system at a fossil plant and an integrated controls system on two nuclear units. Ray began her career at TVA in Nuclear Power’s Emergency Preparedness program and co-authored an industry standard entitled “Graded Response: The Preferred Evacuation Strategy for Nuclear Power Plants,” which was sponsored by the national Nuclear Management and Resources Council.

Before coming to TVA, Ray conducted research with AT&T in fiber-optic communications. She has served on several boards of directors, including EPRI Solutions, a for-profit subsidiary energy services company, and ZTEK, a solid oxide fuel cell manufacturer, and on the management committee of Innogy, an energy storage developer.

Ray earned a B.S. degree in nuclear physics from Auburn University and a master’s in solid state physics from Emory University. She has been honored with several accolades, including TVA Women of Distinction, the Power of Excellence Award, the EPRI Technology Innovation Award, and Outstanding Engineer of the Year.

Ray is a certified SCUBA diver, one-time private pilot, Sunday School teacher, and elder with her church. She is married to Mick Ray and has two daughters and two stepsons.