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

Apalachia Dam Bear Creek Dam Beaver Creek Dam Beech Dam Blue Ridge Dam Boone Dam Cedar Dam Cedar Creek Dam Chatuge Dam Cherokee Dam Chickamauga Dam Clear Creek Dam Dogwood Dam Douglas Dam Fontana Dam

Fort Loudoun Dam Fort Patrick Henry Dam Great Falls Dam Guntersville Dam Hiwassee Dam Kentucky Dam Little Bear Creek Dam Lost Creek Dam Melton Hill Dam Nickajack Dam Nolichucky Dam Normandy Dam Norris Dam Nottely Dam Ocoee Dams 1, 2, 3

Pickwick Landing Dam Pin Oak Dam Pine Dam Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant Redbud Dam South Holston Dam Sycamore Dam Tellico Dam Tims Ford Dam Upper Bear Creek Dam Watauga Dam Watts Bar Dam Wheeler Dam Wilbur Dam Wilson Dam

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	11	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	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

• 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

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

• List of power stations in Tennessee
• List of power stations in North Carolina
• List of power stations in Georgia (U.S. state)
• List of power stations in Alabama
• List of power stations in Kentucky
• List of power stations in Virginia

References

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