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The Wolf Creek Dam is a multi-purpose dam on the Cumberland River in the western part of Russell County, Kentucky, United States.The dam serves at once four distinct purposes: it generates hydroelectricity; it regulates and limits flooding; it releases stored water to permit year-round navigation on the Cumberland River; and it creates Lake Cumberland for recreation, the largest man-made lake ...
Wolf Creek Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Burlington, Kansas. It occupies 9,818 acres (39.73 km 2 ) of the total 11,800 acres (4,800 ha) controlled by the owner. Its namesake, Wolf Creek, was dammed to create Coffey County Lake (formerly Wolf Creek Lake), and provides water for the condensers.
The maximum pool is 760 feet (232 m) at the top of dam floodgates; The top of Wolf Creek Dam is 773 feet (236 m). Lake is considered at "flood control" level from 723 to 760 feet (220 to 232 m). Normal power drawdown is between 723 and 673 feet (220 to 205 m). At 760 feet (232 m) elevation, the shoreline of Lake Cumberland is 1,255 miles (2,020 ...
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 decommissioning of Units 5 and 6, the oldest coal-fired generating units at Oak Creek, has been years in the making. It comes in response to the age of the units, which went into service in ...
The We Energies Elm Road Generating Station seen fromthe room of the Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. We Energies is moving to shut down the first of four coal-powered ...
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.
The 252 foot tall Table Rock Dam first began power generation in of June 1959. The dam contains more than 1.2 million cubic yards of concrete and is 6,432 feet long including its two earth ...