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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
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] 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 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.[ citation needed]

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] 1913–1967 [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 Coal 2,379 [38] Drakesboro, Kentucky 1963–2020
Bull Run Coal 881 Clinton, Tennessee 1967-2023

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

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Ackerman Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Allen Combined-Cycle Power Plant, Tennessee". Power Technology. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Brownsville Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Going with gas". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Chattanooga, Tennessee. July 8, 2011. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  5. ^ a b c d "Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  6. ^ a b c d Sherer, Dennis (February 3, 2003). "Fossil plants backbone of system". TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  7. ^ a b "Colbert Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Gallatin Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Gleason Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  10. ^ a b c d e f Sonal, Patel (June 1, 2012). "TVA Begins Operation of John Sevier CCGT Plant". POWER Magazine. Rockville, Maryland. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  11. ^ a b c d e f "Full steam ahead: TVA co-generation plant saves 1,100 Chemours jobs". Chattanooga Times Free Press. December 6, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Kemper Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  13. ^ a b c d "Lagoon Creek Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  14. ^ a b "Lagoon Creek Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  15. ^ a b "TVA Lagoon Creek gas-fired power plant in service". Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  16. ^ a b "Magnolia Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  17. ^ a b c d e f "Marshall Combustion Turbine Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  18. ^ a b c "Paradise Combined Cycle Plant". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  19. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c "TVA buys Southaven power plant". Memphis Business Journal. Memphis, Tennessee. August 12, 2013. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  21. ^ a b c "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
  24. ^ TVA in Alabama Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, TVA website, accessed January 9, 2009
  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. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Plants of the Past". tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  30. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b c d e "TVA Decides to Demolish Colbert Fossil Plant". Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. November 16, 2016. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  34. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b c d "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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