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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
Memphis, Tennessee: 990 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1959 2018 Watts Bar Steam Plant: Rhea County, Tennessee: 267 Tennessee Valley Authority 1942 1982 John Sevier Fossil Plant: Hawkins County, Tennessee: 880 Tennessee Valley Authority 1957 2012 Johnsonville Fossil Plant: New Johnsonville, Tennessee: 1500 Tennessee Valley Authority 1951 2017
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state/commonwealth of Kentucky, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Kentucky had a total summer capacity of 17,633 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 69,147 GWh. [ 2 ]
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
The plant's first unit began operation on April 9, 1953. In October 1956, the last of the ten units began operation. At the time of its completion, it was the second-largest coal-fired plant in the nation, behind TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee, and was estimated to be the second-largest coal-fired plant in the world. Shawnee ...
For the next 24 hours, temperatures barely crested double digits as wind whipped through the Tennessee Valley region. TVA, which provides power for roughly 10 million people and 750,000 businesses ...
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The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 1.2 million households in the Tennessee Valley.