Tanner's Creek Generating Station
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Lawrenceburg from the air, looking northeast.
Tanner's Creek Generating Station is at bottom left. |
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 Location of Tanner's Creek Generating Station in Indiana
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Lawrenceburg, Indiana |
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| Status | Active |
| Commission date | Unit 1: March, 1951 Unit 2: November, 1952 Unit 3: December, 1954 Unit 4: July, 1964 |
| Owner(s) | AES |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Bituminous coal |
| Cooling source | Ohio River |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | 995 MWe |
Tanner's Creek Generating Station (also spelled Tanners Creek) is a major, 1000-MWe coal-fired electrical power plant in Indiana.[1] Located on the north bank of Ohio River, it is one of the two coal-fired power stations within Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near the tripoint of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky (the other plant being the Miami Fort Power Station in the neighboring Ohio). The plant is situated directly across the Ohio river from Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky. Tanner's Creek is one of the two Indiana coal power plants owned by Indiana Michigan Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power (the other plant being Rockport Generating Station near Rockport, Indiana).
On March 17th, 2015 American Electric Power subsidiary Indiana Michigan Power announced that the Tanners Creek coal-fired plant would be completely shut down by May 31st, 2015.
Units
- Units 1 and 2, rated at 145 MWe all-year capacity, were launched in 1951–1952.
- Unit 3, rated at 200 MWe (summer) and 205 MWe (winter) capacity, was launched in the end of 1954.
- The largest and newest Unit 4, rated at 500 MWe all-year capacity, was launched in mid-1964.[1]
Environmental impact
With three out of four of its units dating back to the 1950s, the plant was ranked 67th on the United States list of dirtiest power plants in terms of sulphur dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour of electrical energy produced in 2006.
