The US power utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and opened a consultation on its project to replace its 1,420 MW Kingston coal-fired power plant in Tennessee (United States) with a 1,500 MW gas-fired CCGT power project including a 100 MW battery storage system. It would also include a 122-mile (nearly 200 km) gas pipeline built by Enbridge. The environmental review is expected to be completed in early 2024.
By 2030, TVA plans to add at least 3.8 GW in new power capacity from combustion turbines (750 MW at Paradise, Kentucky, and 750 MW at Colbert, Alberta, in 2023, and 500 MW at Johnsonvill, Tennessee, in 2024), solar projects (200 MW at Lawrence County, Alabama, in 2025, and 100 MW at Pheonix, Kentucky, in 2027), CCGT (1,450 MW at Cumberland, Tennessee, in 2026), and energy storage.
This new CCGT project - after the Cumberland project - may complicate TVA's plans to achieve a 57% reduction in its CO2 emissions from the 2005 level, an 80% cut by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050.
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