{"id":564837,"date":"2026-04-04T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:29:08","slug":"tva-ceo-announces-retirement-weeks-after-trump-recommends-500k-pay-cap-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564837\/","title":{"rendered":"TVA CEO announces retirement weeks after Trump recommends $500k pay cap | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Don Moul, has notified the board of his intent to retire, Local 3 has learned.<\/p>\n

His retirement will be effective on Wednesday, July 1, a TVA spokesman tells us over email.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum requesting that the Tennessee Valley Authorit\u2026<\/p>\n

The news comes just weeks after President Trump recommended a $500k pay cap for all TVA employees.<\/a><\/p>\n

Moul\u2019s base salary is $1.2 million, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but there were performance-based incentives that made it even higher.<\/p>\n

Director Mitch Graves says the board appreciates his service to employees and the people of the Tennessee Valley:<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder his leadership, TVA has had strong operational and financial performance delivering reliable, affordable, American energy that helps communities across our seven states prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moul was appointed by the board of directors in April 2025 and had previously served as TVA\u2019s executive vice president and chief operating officer.<\/p>\n

During his tenure, TVA and ENTRA1 reached an agreement to collaborate and develop plans to provide TVA with up to 6 gigawatts of new nuclear power generation from small modular reactors.<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re working to learn more about this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Don Moul, has notified the board of his intent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[249904,104149,104156,104169,249891,249892,249897,249893,28,249894,12,72424,116437,249912,47017,26944,249903,1872,249910,249913,192172,26951,26949,249906,44232,26831,26832,104174,249911,2420,249907,249905,249899,249890,249898,249909,249896,12422,37796,44528,249900,90923,249902,147,530,104160,111,26829,26948,104158,104115,26835,104128,39368,249901,90930,249908,249895,26852,2219,249889,249888,104186,21,59665,104184],"class_list":["post-564837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-aftermath-of-events","tag-agencies-of-the-united-states-government","tag-american-nationalism","tag-american-nationalists","tag-borders-of-alabama","tag-borders-of-kentucky","tag-borders-of-mississippi","tag-borders-of-tennessee","tag-business","tag-corporations-chartered","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-controversies","tag-east-tennessee","tag-economy-of-tennessee","tag-economy-of-the-united-states","tag-electric-power","tag-electric-power-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-energy","tag-energy-companies","tag-energy-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-energy-conversion","tag-energy-sources","tag-energy-technology","tag-environment-of-tennessee","tag-environment-of-the-united-states","tag-executive-branch-of-the-government-of-the-united-states","tag-federal-government-of-the-united-states","tag-first-presidency-of-donald-trump","tag-first-trump-administration-controversies","tag-government","tag-government-corporations","tag-government-owned-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-government-owned-energy-companies","tag-hydroelectric-power-companies-of-north-america","tag-hydroelectric-power-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-internal-territorial-disputes-of-the-united-states","tag-new-deal-agencies","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-physics","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-power-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-nuclear-technology","tag-nuclear-technology-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-political-career-of-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-politics-of-the-united-states","tag-power-physics","tag-presidencies-of-donald-trump","tag-presidencies-of-the-united-states","tag-presidency-of-the-united-states","tag-public-administration","tag-public-sphere","tag-public-utilities-of-the-united-states","tag-radioactivity","tag-rivers-of-tennessee","tag-rural-electrification","tag-society-of-the-united-states","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-river","tag-tennessee-valley-authority","tag-trump-administration-controversies","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-energy","tag-united-states-presidential-administration-controversies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}