Kyger Creek Power Plant is a 1-Gigawatt coal-fired power station

Power station

A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....

 at Cheshire, Ohio

Cheshire, Ohio

Cheshire is a village in Gallia County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 221 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Cheshire is located at ....

, USA

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 operated by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation

Ohio Valley Electric Corporation

The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation is a company jointly owned by several parent electrical utilities. It is headquartered in Piketon, Ohio. OVEC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electrical Corporation , own and operate two coal-fired electrical generating plants...

. Launched into service in 1955, the plant is located at 38°54′55"N 82°07′42"W, just 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) downstream along the Ohio River

Ohio River

The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...

 from a much larger, newer coal-fired Gavin Power Plant

Gavin Power Plant

General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power. Named after James M. Gavin, it is the largest coal fired power facility in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation. Its two units, rated at 1300 MWe each,...

. It has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 305 metres (1,000.7 ft), built in 1980.

External links

• Chimney Diagram
• Ohio Valley Electric Homepage (includes a picture of the Kyger Creek Power Plant)