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

Fossil fuel plants

Coal-fired power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission
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
Natural gas dual-fuel combustion turbine (CT) and combined cycle (CC) plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Name Type Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year 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] Dresden, 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 Creek Dual[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
Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission
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
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.

Former facilities

Former generation facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Name Type Capacity (MW) Location Years of operation
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

Cancelled facilities of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Name Units Location Years 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

References

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  2. "Allen Combined-Cycle Power Plant, Tennessee". Power Technology. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  3. "Brownsville Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  4. "Going with gas". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Chattanooga, Tennessee. July 8, 2011. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  5. "Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  6. Sherer, Dennis (February 3, 2003). "Fossil plants backbone of system". TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  7. "Colbert Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  8. "Gallatin Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  9. "Gleason Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  10. Sonal, Patel (June 1, 2012). "TVA Begins Operation of John Sevier CCGT Plant". POWER Magazine. Rockville, Maryland. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  11. "Full steam ahead: TVA co-generation plant saves 1,100 Chemours jobs". Chattanooga Times Free Press. December 6, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  12. "Kemper Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  13. "Lagoon Creek Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  14. "Lagoon Creek Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  15. "TVA Lagoon Creek gas-fired power plant in service". Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  16. "Magnolia Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  17. "Marshall Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  18. "Paradise Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  19. Schimmel, Becca (July 17, 2017). "TVA: Paradise Combined Cycle Gas Plant in Muhlenberg County is Model for Future Power Production". WKYU-FM. Bowling Green, Kentucky. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  20. "TVA buys Southaven power plant". Memphis Business Journal. Memphis, Tennessee. August 12, 2013. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  21. "Southaven Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  22. TVA in Kentucky Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, TVA website, accessed January 9, 2009
  23. TVA in Tennessee Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, TVA website, accessed January 9, 2009
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  25. TVA in Mississippi Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, TVA website, accessed January 9, 2009
  26. TVA in Virginia Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, TVA website, accessed January 9, 2009
  27. "TVA: Energy Purchases from Wind Farms". tva.com. Archived from the original on 2015-07-31.
  28. Tennessee Valley Authority, The Nickajack Project: A Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, Initial Operations, and Costs, Technical Report No. 16 (Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1972), pp. 1–3, 10–11, 17–19, 307–311.
  29. "Plants of the Past". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  30. "Watts Bar Fossil Plant" (PDF). loc.gov. US Library of Congress. 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  31. "Widows Creek Fossil Plant Celebrates 50 Years of Service" (Press release). Tennessee Valley Authority. September 12, 2002. Retrieved January 9, 2007.
  32. "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
  33. "TVA Decides to Demolish Colbert Fossil Plant". Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. November 16, 2016. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  34. "Johnsonville Fossil Plant". TVA. Archived from the original on January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  35. Flessner, Dave (January 6, 2018). "TVA cuts coal use". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  36. "TVA Closes Allen Fossil Plant, Opens Gas Replacement". Associated Press. Power Engineering. May 1, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  37. "Allen Fossil Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  38. "Paradise Fossil Plant". Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
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