Tennessee Eastman Kingsport Power Plant

Tennessee Eastman's Kingsport Power Plant is a 194.3-megawatt (MW) gas- and coal-fired power station owned and operated by Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tennessee. Pictured below is Eastman's Kingsport chemical plant, within which there are 19 coal-fired generating stations.

Location

Loading map...

{"type":"SATELLITE","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"600px","height":"500px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":16,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview","rotate"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":36.521722,"lon":-82.543556,"icon":""}]}

Plant Data

• Owner: Eastman Chemical Co-TN Ops
• Parent Company: Eastman Chemical Co.
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 194.3 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: Unit 7: 6.0 MW (1936), Unit 8: 6.0 MW (1939), Unit 9: 6.0 MW (1941), Unit 10: 6.0 MW (1946), Unit 11: 6.0 MW (1949), Unit 12: 6.0 MW (1953), Unit 13: 7.0 MW (1960), Unit 14: 10.0 MW (1962), Unit 15: 7.5 MW (1963), Unit 16: 10.4 MW (1966), Unit 17: 10.4 MW (1966), Unit 18: 10.4 MW (1967), Unit 19: 10.4 MW (1970), Unit 20: 10.4 MW (1972), Unit 21: 15.0 MW (1969), Unit 22: 15.4 MW (1982), Unit 24: 16.8 MW (1983), Unit 25: 18.0 MW (1994), Unit 26: 16.6 MW (1994)
• Location: 100 North Eastman Rd., Kingsport, TN 37662
• GPS Coordinates: 36.519722, -82.540556
• Technology: Subcritical
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source: Multiple small scale Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee mines
• Number of Employees:
• Unit Conversions: Unit 16, 18, 19, 21 and 24 were converted to natural gas steam turbines.
• Unit Retirements:

Coal to Natural Gas

5 units were converted to natural gas. Unit 16, 18, 19, 21 and 24 were converted with a total capacity of 63.0 MW or about 32.4% of the total capacity.

Emissions Data

• 2006 CO₂ Emissions: 3,737,797 tons
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions:
• 2006 SO₂ Emissions per MWh:
• 2006 NO_x Emissions:
• 2005 Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

External Resources

• Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
• Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.

Related GEM.wiki articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Tennessee and coal
• United States and coal
• Global warming