Unit 1: July, 1952 Unit 2: October, 1952 Unit 3: November, 1952 Unit 4: January, 1953 Unit 5: June, 1954 Unit 6: July, 1954 Unit 7: February, 1961 Unit 8: February, 1965
Decommission date
Unit 7: September, 2015
Owner(s)
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thermal power station
Primary fuel
Bituminous coal
Cooling source
Tennessee River
Power generation
Units decommissioned
8
Nameplate capacity
1,600 MW
Annual net output
9,000 GWh
External links
Commons
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Widows Creek Fossil Plant (also known as the Widows Creek Power Plant) was a 1.6-gigawatt (1,600 MW) coal power plant, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east of Stevenson, Alabama, USA. The plant, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, generated about nine billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. It had one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,001 ft), which was built in 1977, and was removed December 3, 2020 in a controlled demolition.[1]
Along with the Chimney of the Harllee Branch Power Plant, it is the tallest chimney to be demolished in the United States.
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