Tanner's Creek Generating Station

Tanner's Creek Generating Station

Lawrenceburg from the air, looking northeast.
Tanner's Creek Generating Station is at bottom left.
Location of Tanner's Creek Generating Station in USA Indiana
Country United States
Location Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Coordinates 39°04′53″N 84°51′39″W / 39.08139°N 84.86083°WCoordinates: 39°04′53″N 84°51′39″W / 39.08139°N 84.86083°W
Status Active
Commission date Unit 1: March, 1951
Unit 2: November, 1952
Unit 3: December, 1954
Unit 4: July, 1964
Owner(s) AES
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Bituminous coal
Cooling source Ohio River
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 995 MWe

Tanner's Creek Generating Station (also spelled Tanners Creek) is a major, 1000-MWe coal-fired electrical power plant in Indiana.[1] Located on the north bank of Ohio River, it is one of the two coal-fired power stations within 3 miles (5 km) of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near the tripoint of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky (the other plant being the Miami Fort Power Station in the neighboring Ohio). The plant is situated directly across the Ohio river from Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky. Tanner's Creek is one of the two Indiana coal power plants owned by Indiana Michigan Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power (the other plant being Rockport Generating Station near Rockport, Indiana).

On March 17th, 2015 American Electric Power subsidiary Indiana Michigan Power announced that the Tanners Creek coal-fired plant would be completely shut down by May 31st, 2015.

Units

Units 1 and 2, rated at 145 MWe all-year capacity, were launched in 1951–1952.
Unit 3, rated at 200 MWe (summer) and 205 MWe (winter) capacity, was launched in the end of 1954.
The largest and newest Unit 4, rated at 500 MWe all-year capacity, was launched in mid-1964.[1]

Environmental impact

With three out of four of its units dating back to the 1950s, the plant was ranked 67th on the United States list of dirtiest power plants in terms of sulphur dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour of electrical energy produced in 2006.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (EXCEL). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-14.

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