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Adventure Science Center, Nashville, Tennessee (27 kW) Cocke County High School, Newport, Tennessee (9 kW) American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (15 kW) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (7 kW) University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi (30 kW) Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (two 18 kW ...
Location Capacity Operator Year opened Year retired Eastman Chemical Power Plant Kingsport, Tennessee: 131 Eastman Chemical Co-TN Ops 1936 1994 Allen Fossil Plant: 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
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.
It was built primarily to provide electricity for the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [7] A dedication ceremony for the plant took place on November 17, 1955. [8] The plant has nine generating units: Units 1–4, rated at 175 MW each (launched into service in 1954), and Units 5–9, rated at 200 MW each (launched in 1955). [9]
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities ...
This is a list of operational hydroelectric power stations in the United States with a current nameplate capacity of at least 100 MW. The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936.
The Beacon Solar Project is a photovoltaic power station in the northwestern Mojave Desert, near California City in eastern Kern County, California. [2] [3] Split into five phases, the combined Beacon solar facilities generate 250 MW of renewable energy for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). [3]
South Holston Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the South Fork Holston River in Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is the uppermost of three dams on the South Fork Holston owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed.