TVA Keeps Kentucky Coal Plant After Shutting Down 32 Other Coal Units

"Over the past four years, the Tennessee Valley Authority has decided to shutter more than half of the 59 coal-fired power generators it once operated within its 7-state service territory to cut air pollution and comply with stricter environmental regulations.

But TVA directors today are expected to vote to keep operating a pair of 60-year-old coal units in Kentucky, even though the generators are no longer in TVA's service territory.

The TVA board has called a special meeting today at 10 a.m. to be conducted via a webcast among the eight directors to consider the future of units 1 and 4 at the Shawnee Fossil Plant in Paducah, Ky. The two generators are among 18 that TVA agreed in a 2011 consent order with EPA to either shut down or clean up by 2018."

Dave Flessner reports for the Chattanooga Times Free Press December 30, 2014.

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"TVA Board Approves Additional Pollution Controls For Shawnee Fossil Plant" (Chattanoogan)