Qualla: Gavin Power Plant https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gavin Power Plant https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant Gavin Power Plant: Introduction https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. In 2002, American Electric Power bought a town. Not the buildings or the land beneath them - the people. AEP wrote checks worth 3.5 times market value to every homeowner in Cheshire, Ohio, on the condition they pack up and go. The total bill came to roughly twenty million dollars, and at the end of it, a village of about ninety households simply ceased to exist. The reason loomed two miles upriver: the General James M. Gavin Power Plant, twin 1,300-megawatt boilers named for the World War II paratrooper general who jumped into Sicily and Normandy, now Ohio's largest coal-fired generator and the source of the sulfurous blue plumes that had been settling over Cheshire's lawns like industrial frost.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gavin Power Plant: Twin Giants on the Ohio https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. The two units came online in 1974 and 1975, each rated at 1,300 megawatts of supercritical steam, together making Gavin one of the largest coal plants in the country. The math of its appetite is staggering: roughly 20,000 tons of coal burned every day, fed for decades by the Meig...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-twin-giants-on-the-ohio.mp3 0:06 2 full Gavin Power Plant: The Town That Couldn't Stay https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. Cheshire sat downwind. By the late 1990s, residents were waking to a bluish haze that burned their eyes and left chemical residue on cars and clean laundry. Lawsuits accumulated. Rather than fight them, AEP made an extraordinary offer in 2002: take three and a half times your hom...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-the-town-that-couldnt-stay.mp3 0:06 3 full Gavin Power Plant: The Numbers That Won't Go Away https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. Gavin's smokestacks bristle with technology designed to scrub what they emit. Selective catalytic reduction cuts nitrogen oxides by 82 percent, flue-gas scrubbers strip out 94 percent of sulfur dioxide, and electrostatic precipitators capture 99 percent of particulates. Mercury e...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-the-numbers-that-wont-go-away.mp3 0:06 4 full Gavin Power Plant: Money, Power, and a Sold Plant https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. In 2016, AEP sold Gavin and three other coal plants to Lightstone Generation - a fifty-fifty venture between the Blackstone Group and ArcLight Capital Partners - for $2.17 billion. Private equity now owns the boilers that built the buyout. For Gallia County, the math still favors...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-money-power-and-a-sold-plant.mp3 0:06 5 full Gavin Power Plant: Flying Over an Argument https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. From the air, Gavin reads as a paradox in concrete and steel. The white plume of the cooling tower is the most visible single feature for miles in any direction, taller and more constant than any landform along this stretch of the Ohio River. The river itself bends gently past, t...

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