2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Don Moul

President & Chief Executive Officer

Tennessee Valley Authority

TVA’s Don Moul, president and chief executive officer, has over 38 years of experience in all areas of power generation and operations. He possesses a strong track record of enhancing operational performance and teamwork through a disciplined and collaborative leadership approach.

With primary responsibility for TVA’s power generation, transmission, and power supply functions, Don serves in a key leadership role at TVA. With one of the nation’s most resilient, diverse generation portfolios, he will lead TVA’s industry-leading efforts to provide increasingly reliable, resilient and cleaner energy.

Don oversees a number of other mission-critical areas of TVA’s business, including Integrated River System Management; Natural Resources; Environment and Sustainability; and Major Projects. Don’s responsibilities also include exploring the viability of deploying small modular reactor technology at TVA’s Clinch River Site.

In his role, Don is focused on delivering high reliability, low cost, and operational excellence with safety as the highest priority. He is leading operationalizing TVA’s asset strategy and directing TVA’s state-of-the-art grid modernization to creating the energy system of the future that will be ideally positioned to meet emerging customer demands. In addition, Don oversees TVA’s coal, gas, and hydro fleet and the River Forecast Center, which balances the 49-dam, integrated river system to provide flood damage reduction, navigation, hydroelectric power, water quality, water supply, and recreation. Don also is responsible for efforts to protect historical, cultural, and environmental resources, as well as 293,000 acres of public land and 11,000 miles of shoreline.

Throughout his career, Don has held a variety of leadership positions, primarily in nuclear divisions, with American Electric Power, Duquesne Light Company, FirstEnergy Corporation, GPU Nuclear Corporation and Public Service Electric & Gas.

Before joining TVA in June 2021, Don was executive vice president and chief nuclear officer at NextEra Energy where he was responsible for the safe and reliable operation of NextEra’s nuclear fleet, which includes seven operating units at five plant sites. He also oversaw decommissioning activities at Duane Arnold Energy Center.

From 2004 to 2019, Don served in a variety of leadership roles at FirstEnergy Corporation, including leading the nuclear and fossil generation, transmission and distribution, commodity operations and environmental compliance functions. Under his leadership, the First Energy nuclear fleet achieved its best-ever outage and total-cost performance, while maintaining exemplary INPO continuous monitoring ratings in 2018.

Don also previously served as vice president for FirstEnergy Commodity Operations, focused on power production and retail supply in the PJM Markets. He also served as president of Ohio Edison and Penn Power – two of FirstEnergy’s operating companies.

Don earned a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has also been a senior reactor operator at multiple nuclear stations.