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The second action is a high-tech monitoring system TVA developed for buried coal ash sites – the first of its kind in the country – which uses more than 16,000 sensors to collect data on waste ...
TVA is working on a 100-megawatt so lar facility that would be built over a sealed off coal ash heap at its Shawnee plant in Kentucky. If the agency gets approval from federal regulators, it could ...
Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas (a result of the fracking boom), which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for ...
The Kingston Fossil Plant 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 (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
TVA has effectively shut the public out of its decision-making process and chose to impose another ten years of pollution and safety burdens on our community without consulting us.
TVA chief executive Bill Johnson said the decision was not about coal, per se, but rather "about keeping rates as low as feasible". They stated that decommissioning the two plants would reduce its carbon output by about 4.4% annually. [91] TVA announced in April 2021 plans to completely phase out coal power by 2035. [92]
It also worked toward its plan to retire all its coal-fired plants by 2035, laid out a roadmap for an electric vehicle charging network and kept its retail electricity rates at 80% lower than the ...
Byproducts from Allen, known as coal combustion residuals (CCR), were deposited in the West Ash Impoundment. These residuals were known to contain arsenic.When the TVA released an environmental impact statement (EIS) of the impoundment in 2016, three options were generated to deal with approximately 250,000 cubic yards of CCR once the plant closed.