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Old Hickory Lock and Dam is a dam located in middle Tennessee on the Cumberland River at river mile 216.2 in Sumner and Davidson Counties, approximately 25 miles (40 km) upstream from Nashville. The reservoir behind the dam is Old Hickory Lake .
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 ...
Ocoee Dam No. 1: Ocoee River: Hydroelectric 24 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1911 Ocoee Dam No. 2: Ocoee River: Hydroelectric 23 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1913 Ocoee Dam No. 3: Ocoee River: Hydroelectric 29 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1943 Old Hickory Dam: Cumberland River: Hydroelectric 100 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1957 Pickwick ...
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, inspiring hope among Indigenous activists who pushed for rewilding to help save salmon.
Old Hickory Lake is a reservoir in north central Tennessee. It is formed by the Old Hickory Lock and Dam ( 36°17′48″N 86°39′20″W / 36.29667°N 86.65556°W / 36.29667; -86.65556 ( Old Hickory Lock and Dam ) ), located on the Cumberland River at mile 216.2 in Sumner and Davidson counties, approximately 25 miles (40 km ...
Melton Hill Dam was completed and its gates closed on May 1, 1963. Its first generator went online July 3, 1964, and its second generator went online November 11, 1964. The dam's lock was designed by the Army Corps of Engineers, which based the design on the Corps' Old Hickory Dam lock in Middle Tennessee. The Melton Hill lock is bigger than ...
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The Southeastern Power Administration is a United States Power Marketing Administration with responsibility for marketing hydroelectric power from 22 water projects operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the states of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.