They can get their coal from barges. There is also a loop of track so that they can unload unit trains. When I looked at a satellite image, they were unloading barges instead of trains.
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| Street View, Aug 2025 |
Wow, those are big units!
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| gem |
"In 2002, to avoid lawsuits relating to air pollution in the village of Cheshire, Gavin coal plant owner American Electric Power (AEP) corporation decided to buy out the town, by paying every homeowner 3.5 times the market value of their home to move. The total deal came to around US$20 million." In 2025, they are fighting the EPA to allow them to continue to contaminate groundwater. They have "called on the new Trump administration to rescind the ban on spreading coal ash on land. The industry group specifically called on the EPA to revoke its November 2022 order that Gavin Power cease dumping coal ash into an unlined dam at the Gavin power plant." [gem]
AEP bulldozed the town they bought. And the new owner has given a lot of money to Trump's campaign. [TheGuardian]
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| Facebook Reel [YouTube link, I did not watch.] |
Does this conveyor go to an underground coal mine?
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| Satellite |
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| Dameon Luckett, Sep 2023 |
The turbines and generators were supplied by GE. The boilers were from Babcock & Wilcox. [power-technology]
The above reference says that Unit 1 has a steam turbine and Unit 2 has a gas turbine. Because of the symmetric construction of the units, including pollution control, I think Unit 2 is a second steam turbine.
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| Andrew Tucker posted, cropped, via Dennis DeBruler [Gavin is on the left, and Kyger is on the right.] |
I noticed that more barges were loaded with white rock than black rock. Of course, the black rock is coal. I presume the white rock is limestone and that it is used by the pollution control equipment. I did not realize that pollution control consumes so much limestone.
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| Satellite |
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