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===Utilities=== Electricity, water, and natural gas are all provided in Huntsville by Huntsville Utilities (HU).<ref>{{cite web |title=Huntsville Utilities |url=http://www.hsvutil.org |access-date=December 17, 2022 |website=Huntsville Utilities |language=en}}</ref> HU purchases and resells power from the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]]. TVA has two plants that provide electricity to the Huntsville area: Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]] and [[Guntersville Dam]] in [[Marshall County, Alabama|Marshall County]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant |url=https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/nuclear/browns-ferry-nuclear-plant |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=Tennessee Valley Authority}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Guntersville |url=https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/hydroelectric/guntersville |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=Tennessee Valley Authority}}</ref> A third, [[Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station|Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant]] in [[Jackson County, Alabama|Jackson County]], was built in the 1980s but was never activated. TVA attempted to sell the plant in 2016, but withdrew from the deal, stating they could not sell the plant under the [[Atomic Energy Act of 1954]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Logan |first=Noah |date=August 4, 2022 |title=Judge rules in favor of TVA over Bellefonte sale |url=https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/lead/2022/08/04/judge-rules-in-favor-of-tva-over-bellefonte-sale/ |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=Huntsville Business Journal |language=en}}</ref> Telephone service in Huntsville is provided by [[AT&T]], [[EarthLink]], [[WOW!]], and [[Comcast]]. Comcast and WOW! are the two cable providers in the Huntsville city limits. [[Mediacom]] operates in rural outlying areas. AT&T announced the start of its [[AT&T U-verse|DSL U-verse service]] in the Huntsville-Decatur metro area in November 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Phone History |url=http://www.huntsvillerewound.com/HSVtelephone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603123827/http://www.huntsvillerewound.com/HSVtelephone |archive-date=June 3, 2012 |access-date=October 4, 2011 |work=Huntsville Rewound |publisher=huntsvillerewound.com}}</ref> AT&T and [[Google Fiber|Google]] offer fiber Internet service across the city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gigabit Internet Service in Huntsville, AL |url=https://fiber.google.com/cities/huntsville/ |access-date=December 18, 2022 |website=Google Fiber |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=AT&T Fiber Internet in Huntsville, AL |url=https://www.att.com/local/fiber/alabama/huntsville |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=AT&T |language=en}}</ref>
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