The Johnsonville Combustion Turbine Plant is a 1.2-gigawatt (1,200
MW), simple cycle
natural gas power plant
A gas-fired power plant or gas-fired power station or natural gas power plant is a thermal power station which burns natural gas to generate electricity. Natural gas power stations generate almost a quarter of world electricity and a signifi ...
located in
New Johnsonville, Tennessee
New Johnsonville is a city in Humphreys County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,951 at the 2010 census.
History
The history of New Johnsonville is rooted in the town of Johnsonville, which was once situated on the Tennessee Rive ...
in
Humphreys County,
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
. It is 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 Carolina ...
(TVA).
Background
In 1975 the TVA constructed 16 combustion turbine units at Johnsonville. Four more combustion turbine units were added in 2000.
These 20 units have a combined generating capacity of 1.2 gigawatts.
With the closure of the
Johnsonville Fossil Plant
The Johnsonville Fossil Plant was a 1.5-gigawatt (1,500 MW), coal power plant located in New Johnsonville, Humphreys County, Tennessee, United States. The plant generated electricity from 1951 to 2017. It was operated by the Tennessee Valley Aut ...
, the TVA added a
heat recovery generator to one of the combustion turbine units in 2017 to create the steam needed to produce
titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania , is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula . When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6 (PW6), or CI 77891. It is a white solid that is insolubl ...
() at the nearby Chemours plant.
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. Li ...
References
External links
Johnsonville Combustion Turbine Plant
Energy infrastructure completed in 1975
Energy infrastructure completed in 2000
Tennessee Valley Authority
Buildings and structures in Humphreys County, Tennessee
Natural gas-fired power stations in Tennessee
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