Widows Creek Fossil Plant

Widows Creek Fossil Plant
Widows Creek Fossil Plant
Country	United States
Location	Jackson County, near Stevenson, Alabama
Coordinates	34°53′03″N 85°45′18″W / 34.88417°N 85.75500°W / 34.88417; -85.75500
Status	Being decommissioned
Commission date	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
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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.