List of power stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority

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A list of power generating stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority :

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Dams and hydroelectric facilities

Fossil fuel plants

Coal-fired power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority
NameUnitsCapacity (MWe)LocationYear of commission
Cumberland 22,470 Cumberland City, Tennessee 1973
Gallatin 4967 Gallatin, Tennessee 1956
Kingston 91,398 Kingston, Tennessee 1954
Shawnee 91,206 West Paducah, Kentucky 1953
Natural gas dual-fuel combustion turbine (CT) and combined cycle (CC) plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority
NameTypeUnitsCapacity (MWe)LocationYear of commission
Ackerman [1] CC [1] 3 [1] 705 [1] Ackerman, Mississippi [1] 2007 [1]
Allen [2] CC [2] 3 [2] 1,100 [2] Memphis, Tennessee [2] 2018 [2]
Brownsville [3] CT [3] 4 [3] 468 [3] Brownsville, Tennessee [3] 1999 [3]
Caledonia [4] CC [4] 3 [5] 765 [5] Steens, Mississippi [5] 2003 [5]
Colbert [6] CT [6] 8 [6] 392 [7] Tuscumbia, Alabama [6] 1972 [7]
Gallatin [8] CT [8] 8 [8] 600 [8] Gallatin, Tennessee [8] 1975 [8]
Gleason [9] CT [9] 3 [9] 465 [9] Gleason, Tennessee [9] 2000 [9]
John Sevier [10] CC [10] 3 [10] 880 [10] Rogersville, Tennessee [10] 2012 [10]
Johnsonville [11] CT [11] 20 [11] 1,133 [11] New Johnsonville, Tennessee [11] 1975 [11]
Kemper [12] CT [12] 4 [12] 312 [12] De Kalb, Mississippi [12] 2002 [12]
Lagoon CreekDual [13] 12 (CT) [13]
1 (CC) [14] 		904 (CT) [13]
525 (CC) [14] 		Brownsville, Tennessee [15] 2001 (CT) [13]
2011 (CC) [15]
Magnolia [4] CC [4] 3 [16] 920 [4] Ashland, Mississippi [4] 2003 [16]
Marshall [17] CT [17] 8 [17] 621 [17] Calvert City, Kentucky [17] 2002 [17]
Paradise [18] CC [19] 3 [18] 1,130 [18] Drakesboro, Kentucky [19] 2017 [19]
Southaven [20] CC [20] 3 [21] 774 [21] Southaven, Mississippi [20] 2003 [21]

Nuclear power plants

Nuclear power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority
NameUnitsCapacity (MWe)LocationYear of commission
Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant 33,775 Limestone County, Alabama 1974
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant 22,333 Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee 1981
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant 22,332 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
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:

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.[ citation needed ]

Former facilities

Former generation facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority
NameTypeCapacity (MW)LocationYears of operation
Hales Bar Dam [28] Hydroelectric [28] 99.7 [28] Haletown, Tennessee [28] 1913–1967 [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 Coal2,379 [38] Drakesboro, Kentucky 1963–2020
Bull Run Coal881 Clinton, Tennessee 1967-2023

Cancelled facilities

Cancelled facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority
NameUnitsLocationYears of construction
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

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tennessee Valley Authority</span> American utility company

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth-largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sequoyah Nuclear Plant</span> Nuclear power plant in Hamilton County, Tennessee

The Sequoyah Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located on 525 acres (212 ha) located 7 miles (11 km) east of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, and 20 miles (32 km) north of Chattanooga, abutting Chickamauga Lake, on the Tennessee River. The facility is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant</span> Dam in Marion County, Tennessee

Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station in Marion County, just west of Chattanooga in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Widows Creek Fossil Plant</span> Decommissioned coal-fired power plant in Jackson County, Alabama, United States

Widows Creek Fossil Plant was a 1.6-gigawatt coal power plant, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east of Stevenson, Alabama, USA. The plant, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, generated about nine billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. It had one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1977, and was removed December 3, 2020 in a controlled demolition. Along with the Chimney of the Harllee Branch Power Plant, it is the tallest chimney to be demolished in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bull Run Fossil Plant</span> Coal-fired power plant in Anderson County, Tennessee

Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a decommissioned 889 megawatt (MW), coal-fired electric generating station owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The plant is the only coal fired power plant ever constructed by TVA with one unit, and was retired on December 1, 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill</span> 2008 environmental disaster in Roane County, Tennessee, United States

The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons of coal fly ash slurry. The coal-fired power plant, located across the Clinch River from the city of Kingston, used a series of ponds to store and dewater the fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion. The spill released a slurry of fly ash and water which traveled across the Emory River and its Swan Pond embayment onto the opposite shore, covering up to 300 acres (1.2 km2) of the surrounding land. The spill damaged multiple homes and flowed into nearby waterways including the Emory River and Clinch River, both tributaries of the Tennessee River. It was the largest industrial spill in United States history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cherokee Dam</span> Dam in Tennessee, United States

Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Holston River in Grainger County and Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The dam is operated and maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to help meet urgent demands for energy at the outbreak of World War II. Cherokee Dam is 175 feet (53 m) high and impounds the 28,780-acre (11,650 ha) Cherokee Lake. It has a generating capacity of 136 megawatts. The dam was named for the Cherokee, a Native American tribe that controlled much of East Tennessee when the first European settlers arrived in the mid-18th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant</span>

The Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant is a canceled nuclear power plant project near Iuka, Mississippi. It was originally planned to have two 1,350-MW (output) reactors operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The steam turbine-generator sets were provided by General Electric.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paradise Combined Cycle Plant</span> Natural gas power station in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

The Paradise Combined Cycle Plant is a natural gas power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Located just east of Drakesboro, Kentucky, it was the highest power capacity power plant in Kentucky. The plant currently has a capacity of 1.02-gigawatts. The plant originally consisted of three coal units, with a combined capacity of 2,632 MW. Units 1 and 2 were retired in 2017, and replaced with the natural gas units, and Unit 3 was retired in 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wind power in Tennessee</span> Electricity from wind in one U.S. state

Wind power in Tennessee has most potential in East Tennessee along the North Carolina border. The state has not passed renewable portfolio standard legislation and there is just one utility-scale wind farm with 15 operating turbines and previously 3 test turbines. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), based in Knoxville, imports wind-generated electricity into its service area which includes Tennessee. US Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee is an outspoken critic of wind power.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wind power in Kentucky</span> Electricity from wind in one U.S. state

Wind power in Kentucky has limited potential for development within the state since there are generally low wind speeds, though there are specific locations where it can be effective. The state has not passed renewable portfolio standard legislation and there are no commercial-scale wind turbines. Kentucky may benefit from the development of wind power in Tennessee, an adjoining state with which it is collaborating, and from efforts by the Tennessee Valley Authority to both develop and import wind-generated electricity into the region.

The Johnsonville Combustion Turbine Plant is a 1.2-gigawatt, simple cycle natural gas power plant located in New Johnsonville, Tennessee in Humphreys County, Tennessee. It is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

The Allen Combined Cycle Plant is a 1.1-gigawatt natural gas power plant located south of Memphis, Tennessee that began generating electricity in 2018. It is operated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Allen Fossil Plant</span>

The Allen Fossil Plant was a 741-megawatt (MW), coal power plant located south of Memphis, Tennessee. It generated electricity from 1959 to 2018. At the time of its closure, the plant was operated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gallatin Fossil Plant</span> Coal and gas-fired power plant in Gallatin, Tennessee, United States

The Gallatin Fossil Plant is a coal and natural gas-fired power plant near Gallatin, Tennessee operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The plant was originally entirely a coal-fired plant, constructed in the 1950s, and natural gas units were added later.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Watts Bar Steam Plant</span>

Watts Bar Steam Plant was a 267-megawatt (MW), coal power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) located in Rhea County, Tennessee near the present site of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and Watts Bar Dam. The plant was the first coal-fired power plant constructed by TVA.

The Colbert Combustion Turbine Plant is a combustion turbine natural gas-fired power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) near Tuscumbia, Alabama. Commissioned in 1972, it is currently the oldest gas-fired power plant operated by TVA. The site was formerly home to the Colbert Fossil Plant, a coal-fired power station which operated from 1955 to 2016.

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