Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant
Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant is a coal and natural gas-fired electrical generation facility near Wilsonville, Shelby County, Alabama. Four of the five units in the plant were converted to use natural gas under plans to reduce costs.- Type: Power station
- Also known as: “E. C. Gaston Power Station” and “Earnest C Gaston Steam Plant”
- Address: 31972 Highway 25 North, Wilsonville, AL 35186
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wilsonville.
Wilsonville
Village
Wilsonville is a town in southeastern Shelby County, Alabama, United States, located northeast of Columbiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,857.
Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant
- Categories: coal-fired power station, natural gas-fired power station, oil-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Shelby, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.24225° or 33° 14′ 32″ northLongitude
-86.46021° or 86° 27′ 37″ westElevation
407 feet (124 metres)Inception
April 1949Operator
Alabama PowerOpen location code
865M6GRQ+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 837679168OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Norwegian to Norwegian Bokmål—“Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Bokmål: “E. C. Gaston kraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “E. C. Gaston kullkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ernest C. Gaston kullkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaston kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Ernest C. Gaston kullkraftverk”
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