TVA Proposes Adding 6 Peaker Gas Units (200 MW) Near Memphis

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the U.S. TVA’s service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA is the sixth-largest power supplier and the largest public utility in the U.S. Two years ago, MDN told you that TVA is spending over $1 billion to replace six coal-fired plants with natgas-fired turbines (see TVA Investing $1B to Build New Natgas-Fired Electric Plants). We're not sure if this is part of that $1 billion effort, but earlier this month, TVA posted a notice in the Federal Register with a plan to build six new gas-fired peaker (on-demand) units at the existing Allen Combustion Turbine (ACT) site, located in Shelby County, Tennessee, about five miles southwest of the City of Memphis.

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