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In the 1950s, the company acquired existing oil companies, including Sterling Oil, Del-Key Petroleum, and Bay Petroleum. [8] The Tennessee division of the Chicago Corporation acquired Tennessee Gas Transmission Company in 1943 to build a natural-gas pipeline 1,265 miles (2,036 km) from Texas to West Virginia. The first line was completed in ...
Tennessee is home to the two newest nuclear reactors in the US at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, unit 2 being the first to begin operation in the 21st century. [3] After Watts Bar Unit 2 began operation in late 2016, nuclear power passed coal as the top source of electricity. [ 4 ]
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
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, criticized new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency that place strict limits on carbon emissions from coal and gas plants.
On August 1, 2016, a lightning strike in rural Powell County, Kentucky, impacted Kinder Morgan's compressor station on its Tennessee Gas Pipeline system in Clay City. The company's emergency shutdown system was activated and natural gas was vented into the air, but a fine mist of oil and other substances were spewed onto the nearby highway and ...
Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Jeff Lyash talks with editors and reporters Nov. 12, 2019, during a meeting with the editorial board at The Commercial Appeal office in Downtown Memphis.
Delek's plants are located in Cleburne, Texas, Crossett, Arkansas, and New Albany, Mississippi. [10] Delek Renewables utilizes a wide variety of waste stream feedstocks in used cooking oil, poultry fat, beef tallow, and choice white grease (hog fat) as well as vegetable oils such as soybean and canola oil.
In 2001, El Paso bought Oscar Wyatt's Coastal Corporation, a diversified energy company. It owned oil refineries, gas stations, and marketed oil, natural gas, and electricity. In 2003, Oscar Wyatt and other shareholders sued the El Paso Corporation for allegedly misrepresenting its intentions for Coastal assets prior to the merger in 2000.