The Gallatin Fossil Plant is a

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and natural gas-fired

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near

Gallatin, Tennessee Gallatin is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee. The population was 30,278 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census and 44,431 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Named for United States Secretary of the Tr ...

operated by the

Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolin ...

(TVA). The plant was originally entirely a coal-fired plant, constructed in the 1950s, and natural gas units were added later.

Description

The Gallatin Fossil Plant is located on 1,950 acres of land on the Cumberland River The plant consists of four coal-fired units, with a combined generating capacity of 976 net megawatts (MW). The plant contains four Westinghouse and four GE

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units, with a combined capacity of 600 MW net, and these units, located adjacent to the coal units, are sometimes referred to separately from the coal units as the Gallatin Combustine Turbine Plant.

History

Gallatin was originally entirely a coal-fired plant. Groundbreaking for the plant occurred on May 11, 1953. Unit one began operation on November 8, 1956, unit two on June 27, 1957, unit three on May 22, 1959, and unit four on August 9, 1959. The first four gas-fired units was added in 1975, and the last four in 2000.

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s were first installed on the plant in 1970. In 2019, TVA agreed to remove 12 million tons of

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at a cost of $640 million during 20 years.

References

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