Widows Creek Fossil Plant Emissions

What TVA is doing about emissions at Widows Creek

TVA has taken a number of steps to make the efficient generation of power at Widows Creek as clean as possible:

• Unit 7 is equipped with an electrostatic precipitator to remove particulates, a wet limestone scrubber to remove additional particulates and sulfur dioxide emissions, and low-NOx burners and SCR to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions by about 90 percent.
• Unit 7 will be retired by Sept. 30, 2015.
• Unit 8 was idled on Oct. 1, 2014, and will be retired.
• In support of environmental agreements the plant’s six other units were idled on Oct. 1, 2011 and have been retired.

Widows Creek Fossil Plant Emissions

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Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen oxides
Sulfur dioxide

Toxics Release Inventory

2015 data

All amounts are in pounds