Flint Creek Power Plant is a
base load,
coal fired,
electrical power station located west of
Gentry, Arkansas
Gentry is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,158 at the 2010 census. The city was founded in the Ozark Mountains in 1894 along what would become the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The city's prior prosperity in ...
in
Benton County, Arkansas
Benton County is a county within the Northwest Arkansas region with a culture, economy, and history that have transitioned from rural and agricultural to suburban and white collar since the growth of Walmart, which is headquartered in Benton C ...
.
The lone unit uses coal mined from the
Powder River Basin shipped via
Kansas City Southern Railway. The output is owned jointly half and half by
SWEPCO/AEP and
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp.
As part of the project, SWEPCO constructed a 100’ high dam on
Little Flint Creek
Little Flint Creek is a stream in Benton County, Arkansas. It forms northeast of Gentry, and flows generally southwest to become a tributary of Flint Creek to the north-northwest of Siloam Springs. It was impounded in the 1975-1978 timeframe t ...
to create a reservoir to provide cooling water to the plant.
The reservoir, known as
Lake Flint Creek or SWEPCO Lake, provides fishing opportunities and is open to the public.
Units
See also
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List of power stations in Arkansas
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Arkansas, separated by fuel type. In 2021, Arkansas had a summer capacity of 14,832 megawatts, and a net generation of 61,100 gigawatt-hours. The corresponding electr ...
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Global warming
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List of coal-fired power station in the United States
References
External links
*http://www.AEP.com/
Data on generation and fuel consumptionfrom the
Energy Information Administration
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and publ ...
Electricity Data Browser
Energy infrastructure completed in 1978
Buildings and structures in Benton County, Arkansas
Coal-fired power stations in Arkansas
1978 establishments in Arkansas
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