Steve Settle, a Fuel Buyer on Phillip's staff, spent a lot of time at Gallatin making this work. And Fossil Operations Production Manager Ronnie Vineyard and his people provided excellent support from the plant, even though its big spring outage was going on. After the barge took on all it could hold, TVA's Heavy Equipment Division provided tanker trucks and drivers to transport the remaining 244,000 gallons from Gallatin to Colbert. Wiginton says HED also is providing tankers to transport high-sulfur fuel oil to Cumberland and other sites from Johnsonville, where Production Manager Kenny Mullinax and Combustion Turbine Technician Ronnie Gordon have provided valuable support. El Paso Energy Corp. Officials of TVA and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. met at Johnsonville Fossil Plant April 26 for a ceremony commemorating the hookup of the site's combustion turbines to a supply of natural gas.
Gas also is a cleaner fuel, resulting in lower emissions.
TVA is adding four new combustion turbines each at Johnsonville and Gallatin Fossil Plant for the summer of 2000. Allen and Colbert are the other TVA fossil plants with combustion turbines.