Bull Run Power Plant
We demand answers about bull run coal ash anderson county tells tva.
Bull run power plant. The bull run hydroelectric project was a portland general electric pge development in the sandy river basin in the u s. It is the only single generator coal fired power plant in the tva system. When the generator went into operation in 1967 it was the largest in the world in the volume of steam produced. As tva prepares to wind up operations at the bull run coal fired power plant anderson county leaders are worried about what.
The project used a system of canals tunnels wood box flumes and diversion. State of oregon originally built between 1908 and 1912 near the town of bull run it supplied hydroelectric power for the portland area for nearly a century until it was removed in 2007 and 2008. Bull run fossil plant commonly known as bull run steam plant is a 889 megawatt coal fired electric generating station owned and operated by the tennessee valley authority tva. Bull run fossil plant is located on bull run creek near oak ridge tenn.
The plant is the only coal fired power plant ever constructed by tva with one unit and is expected to close in 2023.