Photo: View of Giant Cooling Tower and marker.

Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: July 13, 2019
Caption: View of Giant Cooling Tower and marker.
Additional Description: The Big Sandy plant demolished a second, 370-foot-tall tower, that was part of Unit 2, which had started operating in 1969. The tower cooled 248,000 gallons of water a minute from the Big Sandy River to use in the process of generating electricity. Kentucky Power, a unit of American Electric Power, shut down Unit 2 in May 2015 in order to comply with tougher emissions rules aimed at improving air quality. It continues to use this companion cooling tower at Unit 1. Kentucky Power converted that unit to use natural gas, which burns more cleanly than coal.
Submitted: July 13, 2019, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p483785
File Size: 11.697 Megabytes

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