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{{#badges: Climate change CoalSwarm|CoalSwarmNavbar-CoalPlants}} '''Widows Creek Fossil Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] (TVA) and is located on Guntersville Reservoir on the Tennessee River in northeast Alabama.
The power station has eight coal-fired generating units and "net dependable generating capacity" of approximately 1,629 megawatts. Construction of the power station commenced in 1950 and was commissioned in 1965. According to the TVA the "plant consumes about 10,000 tons of coal a day."<ref>Tennessee Valley Authority, [http://www.tva.com/sites/widowscreek.htm "Widows Creek Fossil Plant"], Tennessee Valley Authority website, accessed June 2008.</ref>
