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Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a 889 megawatt ( MW), coal-fired electric generating station owned and 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 is the only coal fired power plant ever constructed by TVA with one unit, and is expected to close in 2023.


Location

Bull Run Plant is located on , in the Claxton community of
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, on the north bank of Bull Run Creek, directly across the
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) from
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.


History

Construction began on April 2, 1962 and was completed on June 12, 1967, when the plant began commercial operation. In August 2018, TVA began studying whether to retire Bull Run. On February 14, 2019, the TVA board of directors voted 5-2 to close Bull Run by December 2023, as well as the remaining coal unit at
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in Kentucky by December 2020. High operational costs and low
capacity factor The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period. The theoretical maximum energy output of a given installation is def ...
were its factors in their decision.


Units and operating parameters

The plant is the only single-generator coal-fired plant in the TVA system. The plant's winter net generating capacity is about 889 MWe. The plant consumes of coal per day, and requires of cooling water per hour. Its
supercritical boiler A supercritical steam generator is a type of boiler that operates at supercritical pressure, frequently used in the production of electric power. In contrast to a subcritical boiler in which bubbles can form, a supercritical steam generator o ...
operates at a pressure of and temperature of . When the generator first went into operation, it was the largest in the world measured in terms of the volume of steam produced.


Environmental impact

In 2006, the plant ranked the 70th among the large coal-fired plants in the United States on the list of worst SO2 polluters, having emitted of
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per
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of energy produced (27,987 tons of SO2 in 2006 altogether). Since then, a wet limestone
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has been installed, which reduced sulfur dioxide emissions by about 95%. In 2015, the plant released 2,510,476 tons of .


See also

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List of power stations in Tennessee The U.S. state of Tennessee receives its power from a variety of sources. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the primary utility in Tennessee which generates electricity and sells it to hundreds of local utilities and industrial customers. ...


References

{{Tennessee Valley Authority Facilities Energy infrastructure completed in 1967 Coal-fired power stations in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Anderson County, Tennessee Tennessee Valley Authority 1967 establishments in Tennessee