List of power stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority explained

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

Name!scope="col"

Units	Capacity (MWe)	Location	Year of commission
Cumberland	2	2,470	Cumberland City, Tennessee	1973
	4	967	Gallatin, Tennessee	1956
Kingston	9	1,398	Kingston, Tennessee	1954
Shawnee	9	1,206	West Paducah, Kentucky	1953

Name!scope="col"

Type	Units	Capacity (MWe)	Location	Year of commission
Ackerman^[1]	CC	3	705	Ackerman, Mississippi	2007
Allen^[2]	CC	3	1,100	Memphis, Tennessee	2018
Brownsville^[3]	CT	4	468	Brownsville, Tennessee	1999
Caledonia^[4]	CC	3^[5]	765	Steens, Mississippi	2003
	CT	8	392	Tuscumbia, Alabama^[6]	1972^[7]
Gallatin^[8]	CT	8	600	Gallatin, Tennessee	1975
Gleason	CT	3	465	Gleason, Tennessee	2000^[9]
John Sevier	CC	3	880	Rogersville, Tennessee	2012^[10]
Johnsonville	CT	20	1,133	New Johnsonville, Tennessee	1975^[11]
Kemper	CT	4	312	De Kalb, Mississippi	2002^[12]
Lagoon Creek	Dual^[13]	12 (CT) 1 (CC)	904 (CT) 525 (CC)^[14]	Brownsville, Tennessee	2001 (CT) 2011 (CC)^[15]
Magnolia	CC	3	920	Ashland, Mississippi	2003^[16]
Marshall^[17]	CT	8	621	Calvert City, Kentucky	2002
Paradise^[18]	CC^[19]	3	1,130	Drakesboro, Kentucky	2017
Southaven^[20]	CC	3^[21]	774	Southaven, Mississippi	2003

Nuclear power plants

Name!scope="col"

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

• 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 powerAt 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

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!scope="col"

Type	Capacity (MW)	Location	Years of operation
Hales Bar Dam^[28]	Hydroelectric	99.7	Haletown, Tennessee	1913–1967
Wilson Steam Plant	Coal	240	Muscle Shoals, Alabama	1919–1966
Watts Bar Steam Plant^[29]	Coal^[30]	267	Rhea County, Tennessee	1942–1982
John Sevier Fossil Plant	Coal	880	Hawkins County, Tennessee	1957–2012
Widows Creek Fossil Plant^[31] ^[32]	Coal	1,800	Stevenson, Alabama	1952–2015
Colbert Fossil Plant	Coal	1,204	Tuscumbia, Alabama	1955–2016^[33]
Johnsonville Fossil Plant^[34]	Coal	1,500	New Johnsonville, Tennessee	1951–2017^[35]
Allen Fossil Plant	Coal	741^[36]	Memphis, Tennessee	1959–2018^[37]
Paradise Fossil Plant	Coal	2,379^[38]	Drakesboro, Kentucky	1963–2020
Bull Run	Coal	881	Clinton, Tennessee	1967-2023

Cancelled facilities

Name!scope="col"

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 Mississippi
• List of power stations in Kentucky
• List of power stations in Virginia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ackerman Combined Cycle Plant. . 2015. tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
2. Web site: Allen Combined-Cycle Power Plant, Tennessee. Power Technology. April 4, 2018.
3. Web site: Brownsville Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
4. News: July 8, 2011. Going with gas. Chattanooga Times Free Press. Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2019-02-01.
5. Web site: Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
6. News: Sherer. Dennis. February 3, 2003. Fossil plants backbone of system. TimesDaily. Florence, Alabama. 2019-02-01.
7. Web site: Colbert Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
8. Web site: Gallatin Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
9. Web site: Gleason Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
10. News: Sonal. Patel. June 1, 2012. TVA Begins Operation of John Sevier CCGT Plant. POWER Magazine. Rockville, Maryland. 2019-02-01.
11. News: Full steam ahead: TVA co-generation plant saves 1,100 Chemours jobs. Chattanooga Times Free Press. December 6, 2016. January 6, 2018.
12. Web site: Kemper Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
13. Web site: Lagoon Creek Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
14. Web site: Lagoon Creek Combined Cycle Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
15. News: . TVA Lagoon Creek gas-fired power plant in service. Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. June 13, 2011. 2019-02-01.
16. Web site: Magnolia Combined Cycle Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
17. Web site: Marshall Combustion Turbine Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
18. Web site: Paradise Combined Cycle Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
19. News: 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. 2019-02-01.
20. News: . TVA buys Southaven power plant. Memphis Business Journal. Memphis, Tennessee. August 12, 2013. 2019-02-01.
21. Web site: Southaven Combined Cycle Plant. . tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
22. http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/pdf/kentucky.pdf TVA in Kentucky
23. http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/pdf/tennessee.pdf TVA in Tennessee
24. http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/pdf/alabama.pdf TVA in Alabama
25. http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/pdf/mississippi.pdf TVA in Mississippi
26. http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/pdf/virginia.pdf TVA in Virginia
27. Web site: TVA: Energy Purchases from Wind Farms. tva.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150731021622/https://www.tva.com/power/wind_purchases.htm. 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. Web site: Watts Bar Fossil Plant. . 2012. loc.gov. US Library of Congress. 2019-01-20.
30. Web site: Plants of the Past. . 2018. tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
31. Widows Creek Fossil Plant Celebrates 50 Years of Service. Tennessee Valley Authority. September 12, 2002 . January 9, 2007.
32. Web site: Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Excel. July 14, 2008.
33. News: . TVA Decides to Demolish Colbert Fossil Plant. Power Engineering. Tulsa, Oklahoma. November 16, 2016. 2019-02-01.
34. Web site: Johnsonville Fossil Plant. https://web.archive.org/web/20160112224956/https://www.tva.com/Energy/Our-Power-System/Fossil-Fuel-Generation/Johnsonville-Fossil-Plant. TVA. January 12, 2016. January 6, 2018. dead.
35. News: TVA cuts coal use. Flessner. Dave. Chattanooga Times Free Press. January 6, 2018. January 6, 2018.
36. Web site: Allen Fossil Plant. . 2018. tva.gov. Tennessee Valley Authority. 2019-02-01.
37. News: TVA Closes Allen Fossil Plant, Opens Gas Replacement. Associated Press. Power Engineering. May 1, 2018. October 27, 2018.
38. Web site: Paradise Fossil Plant . Tennessee Valley Authority . 4 February 2020.