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*'''Plant Nameplate Capacity''': 1,969 MW
*'''Units and In-Service Dates''': 141 MW (1952), 141 MW (1952), 141 MW (1952), 141 MW (1953), 141 MW (1954), 141 MW (1954), 575 MW (1961), 550 MW (1965)
*'''Retirement:''' Units 1-6: Retired in stages from May 2012 to July 2013; Unit 8 retired October 2014<ref name=TVA>[http://www.tva.com/sites/widowscreek.htm "Widows Creek Fossil Plant,"] Tennessee Valley Authority, accessed June 2015</ref>
*'''Location''': County Road 96, Stevenson, AL 35772
*'''GPS Coordinates''': 34.891361, -85.750778
===August 2010: TVA Announces Plans to Retire Widows Creek Units 1-6===
On August 24, 2010 TVA announced that it will retire 9 coal-fired generating units totalling about 1,000 megawatts of capacity at three locations beginning in fiscal year 2011: [[Shawnee Fossil Plant]] Unit 10 in Kentucky, [[John Sevier Fossil Plant]] Units 1 and 2 in Tennessee, and [[Widows Creek Fossil Plant]] Units 1-6 in Alabama, including six units at the [[Widows Creek Fossil Plant]]. In addition TVA stated that it will going to eliminate 200 jobs at these plants starting in 2011, but the workers will be placed in other positions within TVA. CEO [[Tom D. Kilgore]] said that TVA would replace the sidelined coal power with greater reliance on nuclear power and energy efficiency.<ref>[http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julsep10/coal_plants.html "TVA to idle 9 coal-fired units,"] Tennessee Valley Authority press release, August 24, 2010.</ref>
===April 2011: TVA to phase out 18 coal units, including Widows Creek===
On April 14, 2011, TVA and North Carolina settled a 5-year-old lawsuit - [[North Carolina v. TVA]] - over TVA emissions from its coal-fired plants. As part of the agreement, TVA agreed to phase out 18 units of its coal plants, including six units at the [[Widows Creek Fossil Plant]], taking all but two offline.<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13375691 "TVA Phasing out Hundreds of Jobs at Coal Plants"] ABC, April 14, 2011.</ref><ref name="TVA">[http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/decrees/civil/caa/tvacoal-fired-cd.pdf "Consent Decree,"] ''North Carolina v. TVA,'' U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, accessed April 20, 2011</ref> In May 2012, TVA began considering a switch to natural gas for the plant, linked up to a proposed natural gas pipeline from Tennessee through Alabama to Georgia.<ref>Ben Benton, [http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/may/13/TVA-natural-gas-pipeline-jackson-county-for-region/?print "Natural gas pipeline considered for tri-state region,"} Times Free Press, May 13, 2012.</ref>
Units 1-6 were etired in stages from May 2012 to July 2013.<ref name=TVA/>
===November 2013: TVA announces plan to retire unit 8===
On November 14, 2013, TVA announced that unit 8, one of the two remaining units of the plant, would be retired. The agency left the timeframe of the retirement to the discretion of the CEO. TVA also announced retirements at the [[Colbert Fossil Plant]] and the [[Paradise Fossil Plant]].<ref>Paul Gattis, [http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/11/tva_to_cut_more_than_300_emplo.html#incart_river_default "TVA to cut more than 150 employees at two north Alabama plants,"] All Alabama, November 14, 2013</ref><Ref>Steven Mufson, [http://wapo.st/1adq28I "Tennessee Valley Authority to close 8 coal-fired power plants,"] Washington Post, November 14, 2013</ref>
Unit 8 retired October 2014<ref name=TVA/>
==Coal Waste Site==
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===External Resources===
*[http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005], Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
*Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.
