Photo by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 10.09.2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removes an original 1957 turbine from Unit 3 at Old Hickory Power Plant on Oct. 9, 2025. The turbine, set in place outside the unit, will be replaced by a new, more efficient model as part of ongoing Section 212 Hydropower Rehabilitation Program efforts....
Photo by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 09.03.2025
New stainless steel, 7-blade runner hub at Old Hickory Power Plant replaces the original 5-blade steel runner hub as part of the Section 212 Hydropower Rehabilitation Program. The $1.2 billion initiative modernizes nine power plants to meet the growing energy demands of 4 million customers across eight states....
Photo by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 09.03.2025
Andritz contractors lower a massive rotor to be set aside, making way for the installation of a new turbine as part of the turbine generator rehabilitation project at Old Hickory Powerhouse on the Cumberland River. The rotor weighs 504,000 pounds. Sept. 3, 2025....
Photo by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 09.03.2025
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, and Andritz contractors carefully disassemble a massive rotor from one of the hydropower units at Old Hickory Powerhouse on the Cumberland River as part of the ongoing turbine generator rehabilitation project. The rotor weighs 504,000 pounds and is set aside to make way for the installation of a new turbine. Sept. 3, 2025....
Photo by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 09.03.2025
Andritz contractors overseeing bridge crane operation as a massive rotor is carefully moved toward them during the turbine generator rehabilitation project at Old Hickory Powerhouse on the Cumberland River. The rotor, weighing 504,000 pounds, is part of the ongoing effort to replace turbine components. Sept. 3, 2025....
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.10.2023
This is an aerial view taken Dec. 10, 2023, of the damage sustained to the Old Hickory Hydropower Plant when a tornado struck the area the day before on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee....
Photo by Misty Cunningham | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.21.2022
A newly delivered Generator Step-up Unit Transformer arrives from Lenz, Austria, to the Old Hickory Power Plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee, the week of June 20, 2022....
Photo by Misty Cunningham | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.21.2022
An engineer looks over the newly delivered Generator Step-up Unit Transformers at the Old Hickory Power Plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee on June 20, 2022....
