Big Sandy Power Plant
The Big Sandy Power Plant is a 268 megawatt, natural gas power plant owned and operated by Kentucky Power Company, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, on the shores of the Big Sandy River near Louisa, Kentucky.Photo: FunksBrother, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: natural gas power plant in Lawrence County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Big Sandy Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Riverside Generating.
Riverside Generating
Power station
Photo: FunksBrother, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Riverside Generating is a power station, which is situated 1½ miles northeast of Big Sandy Power Plant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zelda and Hubbardstown.
Zelda
Hamlet
Zelda is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky, United States. Zelda is situated 1½ miles northeast of Big Sandy Power Plant.
Hubbardstown
Hamlet
Hubbardstown is an unincorporated community located in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. Hubbardstown is situated 2 miles northeast of Big Sandy Power Plant.
Fallsburg
Hamlet
Fallsburg is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky, United States. Fallsburg was once the site of a busy mill. Fallsburg is situated 3 miles west of Big Sandy Power Plant.
Big Sandy Power Plant
- Categories: coal-fired power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Lawrence, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.17307° or 38° 10′ 23″ northLongitude
-82.61886° or 82° 37′ 8″ westInception
January 1963Operator
Kentucky Power CompanyOpen location code
86CV59FJ+6FOpenStreetMap ID
way 157842436OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q4906286
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Norwegian to Norwegian Bokmål—“Big Sandy Power Plant” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Sandy kraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Sandy kullkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Big Sandy kullkraftverk”
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