TVA to Replace Iconic Kingston Coal Plant With 1.5-GW Modern
While the utility has an active interconnection queue of close to 30 GW, more than half is for solar and storage, and TVA recognizes a “significant portion” may be non-viable.
TVA is building what it calls the Kingston Energy Complex, a combination of 1,550 megawatts of natural gas, 100 megawatts of batteries and up to four megawatts of solar panels. The complex next to the existing coal plant in Roane County will generate enough electricity for around 900,000 homes.
Kingston coal fired power plant, seen in 2008 after major coal ash impoundment spill, would be replaced by 1.5GW natural gas power plant under TVA plan. Photo: TVA
At the Kingston site, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, the gas plant will be joined by 100 megawatts of grid-level battery storage and 3 to 4 megawatts of solar generation in a first-of-its-kind complex for TVA. Eventually, the towering and aging stacks will have to come down and the silhouette of Kingston will change dramatically.
TVA's energy complex of gas and batteries is replacing the Kingston coal plant. See the progress The Tennessee Valley Authority is constructing what it calls the "Kingston Energy Complex" to replace the coal plant mostly with natural gas. The Kingston plant opened in 1955 as the world's largest coal-fired plant, and it has a complicated history.
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