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Fort Patrick Henry Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the South Fork Holston River within the city of Kingsport, in Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is the lowermost of three dams on the South Fork Holston owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1950s to take advantage of the hydroelectric potential created by the regulation of river ...
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 ...
Logo used to commemorate 75 years of the Southwestern Power Administration. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas and Representative Clyde T. Ellis of Arkansas spearheaded the effort to make all federal dams constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the region to stay owned and operated by the military while the hydroelectric power stations were to be managed and marketed by the ...
Fort Patrick Henry Dam — Fort Patrick Henry Lake; on the South Fork Holston River; finished in 1953 by the TVA; Great Falls Dam — Great Falls Reservoir; on the Caney Fork; finished in 1916 by the Tennessee Electric Power Co.; acquired by the TVA in 1939; Hales Bar Dam; on the Tennessee River, TVA dam mostly demolished in 1968, replaced by ...
In February 2012, TVA said the design modifications to Watts Bar 2 were partially responsible for the project running over budget and behind schedule. [5] The second unit costs a total of $4.7 billion bringing the total costs of the two unit plant to more than $12 billion. [10] It will likely be the last Generation II reactor to be completed in ...
The dam was built for a few key reasons according to TVA: [5] Create a navigable channel of the Elk River from a point 14 miles downstream. The power generation would provide 40 megawatts of power from the generator. The dam provides water supply and flood damage reduction downstream on the Elk River, primarily for Fayetteville, Tennessee.
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Markland Locks and Dam: Gallatin County, Kentucky / York Township, Switzerland County, Indiana 38°46′29″N, 84°57′51″W 1964 72.9 MW Corporation Duke Energy Indiana: United States Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Norway Dam (Indiana) [28] Monticello, Indiana 40°46'50"N, 86°45'36"W 1923 9.2 MW Corporation