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Grid Storage
Raccoon Mountain hydroelectric plant
9th-largest grid storage in United States of 101 · top 11% worldwide (#106 of 965)
- Operator
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Owner
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 1,714 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1978
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · United States · 101 ranked
- #1Red Lake Pumped hydroelectric plant3.0 GW
- #7Ludington hydroelectric plant2.0 GW
- #8Dry Canyon Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.8 GW
- #9Raccoon Mountain hydroelectric plant1.7 GW
- #10Castaic hydroelectric plant1.7 GW
- #11Carrizo Four Corners Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.5 GW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Sequoyah Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 33 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Substations in range
- 3
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Raccoon Mountain hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 1.7 GW · hydro
- 500 kV line206 m · Transmission Line
- Chattanooga Cement Plant6.5 km · Cement Plant
- DC Blox Chattanooga8.7 km · Data Centre
- Chickamauga hydroelectric plant15 km · Power Plant · 160 MW · hydro
- Sequoyah Sub TVA to Widows Creek Sub TVA 500KV15 km · Transmission Line
- Widows Creek - Raccoon Mountain 500KV20 km · Transmission Line
- Nickajack hydroelectric plant22 km · Power Plant · 104 MW · hydro
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Watercourse: Tennessee River
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)