List of power stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
A list of power generating stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority:
Dams and hydroelectric facilities
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Fossil fuel plants
Name | Units | Capacity (MWe) | Location | Year of commission |
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Bull Run | 1 | 881 | Clinton, Tennessee | 1967 (closing 2023) |
Cumberland | 2 | 2,470 | Cumberland City, Tennessee | 1973 |
Gallatin | 4 | 967 | Gallatin, Tennessee | 1956 |
Kingston | 9 | 1,398 | Kingston, Tennessee | 1954 |
Shawnee | 9 | 1,206 | West Paducah, Kentucky | 1953 |
Nuclear power plants
Name | Units | Capacity (MWe) | Location | Year of commission |
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Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant | 3 | 3,775 | Limestone County, Alabama | 1974 |
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant | 2 | 2,333 | Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee | 1981 |
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant | 2 | 2,332 | Rhea County, Tennessee | 1996 |
Joint facilities
TVA also assists ALCOA's Tapoco/APGI in regulating several facilities, including the Calderwood, Cheoah, Chilhowee, and Santeetlah dams.
Renewable generation
TVA operates several small-scale facilities that generate electricity from renewable sources other than hydropower. These include:[22][23][24][25][26]
- Solar electric generation
- Lovers Lane soccer complex, Bowling Green, Kentucky (36 kW capacity)
- Finley Stadium, Chattanooga, Tennessee (85 kW)
- Gibson County High School, Dyer, Tennessee (18 kW)
- Florence, Alabama water treatment facility (30 kW)
- Sci-Quest science museum, Huntsville, Alabama (27 kW)
- Ijams Nature Center, Knoxville, Tennessee (15 kW)
- Bridges Center, Memphis, Tennessee (25 kW)
- Adventure Science Center, Nashville, Tennessee (27 kW)
- Cocke County High School, Newport, Tennessee (9 kW)
- American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (15 kW)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (7 kW)
- University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi (30 kW)
- Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (two 18 kW facilities)
- Duffield-Pattonsville Elementary School, Scott County, Virginia (9 kW)
- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi (15 kW)
- Wind power
At Buffalo Mountain in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, TVA operates three wind turbines with a combined generation capacity of 2 MW and purchases the output of 15 additional wind turbines owned by Invenergy that have a combined capacity of 27 MW. As of 2013, the agency had purchased agreements from power generated from wind farms outside its service area:
- 2012 – Enel Green Power, LLC – 201MW – Caney River Wind Farm, Elk County, Kansas.
- 2012 – Invenergy – 400MW – Bishop Hill Wind Energy Center, Henry County, Illinois
- 2012 – 200MW – California Ridge Wind Energy Center in Champaign County, Illinois
- 2012 – NextEra Energy Resources – 150MW – White Oak Energy Center, McLean County, Illinois
- 2012 – NextEra Energy Resources – 165MW – Cimarron Wind farm, Gray County, Kansas
A 2010 agreement with Iberdrola Renewables provides a potential 300MW future supply from Streator-Cayuga Ridge Wind Farm, Livingston County, Illinois[27]
- Waste-derived methane
Biogas from the Maxson wastewater treatment plant in Memphis is burned in Allen Fossil Plant, accounting for a generating capacity of 4 MW.
Former facilities
Name | Type | Capacity (MW) | Location | Years of operation |
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Hales Bar Dam[28] | Hydroelectric[28] | 99.7[28] | Haletown, Tennessee[28] | 1913–1952[28] |
Wilson Steam Plant[29] | Coal[29] | 240[29] | Muscle Shoals, Alabama[29] | 1919–1966[29] |
Watts Bar Steam Plant[30] | Coal[29] | 267[29] | Rhea County, Tennessee[30] | 1942–1982[30] |
John Sevier Fossil Plant[29] | Coal[29] | 880[29] | Hawkins County, Tennessee[29] | 1957–2012[29] |
Widows Creek Fossil Plant[31][32] | Coal[29] | 1,800[29] | Stevenson, Alabama[29] | 1952-2015[29] |
Colbert Fossil Plant[33] | Coal[33] | 1,204[33] | Tuscumbia, Alabama[33] | 1955–2016[33] |
Johnsonville Fossil Plant[34] | Coal[34] | 1,500[34] | New Johnsonville, Tennessee[34] | 1951–2017[35] |
Allen Fossil Plant[36] | Coal[36] | 741[37] | Memphis, Tennessee[36] | 1959–2018[36] |
Paradise Fossil Plant | Coal | 2,379[38] | Drakesboro, Kentucky | 1963–2020 |
Cancelled facilities
Name | Units | Location | Years of construction |
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Bellefonte Nuclear Plant | 2 | Hollywood, Alabama | 1975–1988 |
Hartsville Nuclear Plant | 4 | Hartsville, Tennessee | 1975–1984 |
Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant | 2 | Surgoinsville, Tennessee | 1977–1981 |
Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant | 2 | Iuka, Mississippi | 1978–1984 |
See also
References
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- "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
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