TVA to shutter eight coal-fired units at Colbert, Paradise and Widows Creek

摘要

The Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors has approved the retirement of eight coal-fired units, representing 3,067 MW of generation, and the construction of a natural gas-fired plant. The board. meeting Thursday in Oxford, Mississippi, unanimously approved the retirement of units 1 through 5 at the Colbert plant in northern Alabama, totaling 1,184 MW, the 475-MW unit 8 at the Widows Creek fossil plant in Alabama and units 1 and 2 at the Paradise plant in Kentucky.