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LG&E and KU's newest power plant, the Trimble County Generating Station, provides power to about 1 million Kentucky residents. and is located on 2,200 acres situated along the Ohio River, 50 miles northeast of Louisville. It has been recognized as one of the most environmentally friendly coal fired plants in the country.
The plant, known as the Trimble County Power Plant, finally opened in 1990. [27] The 1978 environmental impact report to the United States Environmental Protection Agency noted that the downstream portion of Corn Creek (the creek) near to its mouth had been channelized some time prior to 1950, leaving a disconnected oxbow lake where the creek ...
The plant is connected to the power grid by 6 345-kv lines and 3 138-kv lines. 1 345-kv line goes to the Trimble County Power Plant, which is an interconnection with Louisville Gas & Electric. 1 short 345-kv line connects with the nearby American Electric Power Jefferson 765-kv Station.
TRIMBLE COUNTY. As of 7:54 a.m. Friday, over 4,000 customers in Trimble County were without power, according to poweroutage.us, a website that tracks power outages across the country. Roughly 80% ...
Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is a utilities company based in Louisville, Kentucky.A subsidiary of PPL Corporation through the LG&E and KU Energy subsidiary, LG&E serves over 429,000 electric and over 333,000 natural gas customers, covers an area of 700 square miles (1800 km 2), and has a total regulated electric generation capacity of 2,760 megawatts.
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Kentucky had a total summer capacity of 17,633 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 69,147 GWh. [2]
A strip mine in Martin County. Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired geologic material.
Three Mile Island in 2019, prior to shutdown. / 40.15389°N 76.72472°W / 40.15389; -76.72472. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island [a] in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by ...