Chattanooga Bakery Shines with Energy Efficiency
Five days a week. Sixteen-hour days. Over 1 million MoonPies produced daily. For more than a century, Chattanooga Bakery has crafted one of America’s most iconic snacks – a marshmallow-filled graham cracker sandwich inspired by an Appalachian miner who wanted a snack “as big as the moon.”
Since launching MoonPie in 1917, this fifth-generation family-owned business continues to provide a Southern comfort food to families around the world. Over the years, the company has developed new sizes and expanded flavors beyond the original chocolate coating. It has also invested in modernizing equipment to meet growing demand. And through energy efficiency incentives from TVA EnergyRight, along with energy and communications company EPB, Chattanooga Bakery now produces MoonPies more sustainably.
In the first 10 months of fiscal year 2024, TVA and its partners helped the Chattanooga Bakery and about 650 other businesses conserve energy and save more than $121 million on electric bills over the life of the energy improvements. Companies like Chattanooga Bakery are seeing the benefits. “For us to continue being successful and accommodate growth, we have to be more productive and more efficient. That’s certainly one of the reasons behind joining this program,” said Tory Johnston, vice president of sales and marketing at Chattanooga Bakery, Inc.
More information about the energy-saving programs available through TVA can be found here.