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Paradise — Power plant · Gas, combined cycle · Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Combustion
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Paradise

Power plant · Gas, combined cycle

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, combined cycleran 50% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
2017
Net generation, 2025
8,191,280 MWh
Grid
500 kV to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Location
Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2026
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2026
  • Gas
  • Coal
  • Oil

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
U.S. Government

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Technology
Gas, combined cycle source: “Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle”
Age
9 years since 2017
Unused energy
8,046 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
Heat rate
7,199 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
Gem
Parents
Name
Tennessee Valley Authority
Share pct
100
Gem entity id
E100000002329
Unit ids
G100000107810, G100000107811, G100000107812, G100000401620, G100000410523, G100000410524, G100000410525
Location id
L100000103946
Eia plant ids
1378
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110071161620
Subparts reported
C, D
NAICS code
221112
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1005830
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202558,971,308
Capacity factor, 20250.504
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 20257,199.3
Net generation (MWh), 20258,191,280
Balancing authority codeTVA

Retirement

EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.
Capacity retired
2,558.2 MW
Generators retired
3
Capacity still in service
1,853.6 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Conventional Steam Coal704 MWRetiredApril 2017
2Conventional Steam Coal704 MWRetiredApril 2017
3Conventional Steam Coal1,150.2 MWRetiredJanuary 2020

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
500 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Tennessee Valley Authority
Balancing authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
NERC region
SERC
Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)
Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Ownership

2 companies2
CompanyRoleAs ofSource
Tennessee Valley Authority Operator EIA-860M
U.S. Government Owner Dec 31, 2023 EPA GHGRP

Timeline

  • Stated Unit 3 scheduled to retire, 1,150.2 MW · EIA-860M
  • Stated Units 1, 2 scheduled to retire, 1,408 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

  • EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
  • EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
  • EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
  • EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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