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Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Lawrence County in Alabama.It is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the mid-1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to improve navigation on the river and bring flood control and economic development to the region.
As part of the project, SWEPCO constructed a 100’ high dam on Little Flint Creek to create a reservoir to provide cooling water to the plant. [2] The reservoir, known as Lake Flint Creek or SWEPCO Lake, provides fishing opportunities and is open to the public. [3]
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 ...
Lake Flint Creek, also known as SWEPCO Lake, [1] is located about five miles north of the City of Siloam Springs in Benton County, Arkansas. [2] It was made by constructing a 100’ high dam on Little Flint Creek in the 1975-1978 timeframe, creating a lake of about 500 acres.
Global engineering and construction firm Foster Wheeler announced that it was awarded a five-month contract from the Energy Technologies Institute to collaborate with the British Geological Survey ...
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. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
Guntersville Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Marshall County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.It is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to create a continuous navigation channel on the entire length of the river and bring flood control and economic ...
2019 net generation Water source Operator Opened Beaver Lake Dam: Carroll County: 112 2 261,746 [22] White River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1965 [23] Blakely Mountain: Garland/Montgomery: 75 2 231,668 [24] Ouachita River: Southwestern Power Administration: 1956 [23] Bull Shoals: Baxter/Marion: 340 4 1.4 million [25] White River ...