Watts Bar Fossil Plant

Watts Bar Fossil Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Tennessee Valley Authority near Spring City, Tennessee. It sits adjacent to TVA's Watts Bar nuclear power plant, and near TVA's Watts Bar hydroelectric plant.

Plant Data

 * Owner/Parent Company: Tennessee Valley Authority
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 240 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 60 MW (1942), 60 MW (1942), 60 MW (1943), 60 MW (1945)
 * Location: 467 Steam Plant Rd., Spring City, TN 37381
 * GPS Coordinates: 35.602778, -84.779167
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Emissions Data

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External resources

 * Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
 * Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * Tennessee and coal
 * Tennessee Valley Authority
 * United States and coal
 * Global warming