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 Indiana
Country	United States
Location	Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Coordinates	39°04′53″N 84°51′39″W / 39.08139°N 84.86083°W / 39.08139; -84.86083Coordinates: 39°04′53″N 84°51′39″W / 39.08139°N 84.86083°W / 39.08139; -84.86083
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. All clean now, the plant is closed and the workers are unemployed

References

1 2 "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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Power stations in Indiana

Operating Coal-fired generating stations	A.B. Brown Bailly Cayuga Clifty Creek Crawfordsville Mun. F.B. Culley Eagle Valley Edwardsport R. Gallagher Gibson Harding St. (formerly E.W. Stout) Jasper Mun. Logansport Merom Michigan City D.H. Mitchell Noblesville Perry K. Peru Mun. Petersburg H.T. Pritchard F.E. Ratts Rockport R.M. Schahfer Tanner's Creek Wabash River Warrick Whitewater Valley

Defunct Coal-fired generating stations	State Line

Oil-fired peaking stations	Connersville Miami-Wabash

Gas-fired peaking stations	Anderson Broadway Georgetown Henry County Lawrence County Lawrenceburg Montpelier Noblesville Northeast Portside Richmond Vermillion Wheatland Whiting Clean Energy Worthington

Hydroelectric dams	Markland Dam Norway Dam Oakdale Dam Twin Branch Dam

Wind farms	Benton County Wind Farm Fowler Ridge Wind Farm Hoosier Wind Farm Meadow Lake Wind Farm

Attempted Biomass to energy plants	Milltown Biomass

Attempted nuclear plants	Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant Bailly Nuclear Power Plant

Utility companies	Duke Energy Indiana Greenfield Mills Hoosier Energy Indiana-Michigan Power Indianapolis Power & Light Northern Indiana Public Service Company Vectren

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