Dennis Spencer Succeeds Bill Edwards as Gallatin Plant Manager
February 6, 2003
GALLATIN, Tenn. — TVA has named Dennis Spencer manager of Gallatin Fossil Plant to succeed retiring plant manager Bill Edwards. Edwards, who has served as plant manager since 1998, will retire on February 14.
Spencer comes to Gallatin from TVA’s Johnsonville Fossil Plant in New Johnsonville, Tennessee, where he has served as assistant plant manager since April 2002. He worked previously at Gallatin Fossil Plant both as outage manager and maintenance manager.
“Dennis Spencer’s experience and familiarity with Gallatin will be invaluable in leading the Gallatin team,” said TVA Fossil Power Group Executive Vice President Joe Bynum. “We appreciate Bill Edwards’ many years of service to TVA and his outstanding leadership at Gallatin Fossil Plant.”
Spencer, who has a B.S. degree in engineering technology from Western Kentucky University, began his TVA career in 1978. He is a native of Paducah, Kentucky, where his father worked and retired from TVA’s Shawnee Fossil Plant.
Spencer and his wife, Kathy, have two daughters, Allison and Kristin, both graduates of Gallatin High School. Kristin is one of the 12 winners of the TVA Employee Dependent Scholarship Program for 2003.
Edwards joined TVA in 1972 as a trainee in the Student Generating Plant Operator training program at TVA’s Bull Run and Cumberland Fossil Plants. He progressed through the operations ranks at Cumberland and Gallatin, and in 1995 he was named plant manager at John Sevier Fossil Plant near Rogersville, Tennessee. He has been serving as plant manager at Gallatin since 1998.
Edwards is a native of Gallatin, and his wife, Jane, is an elementary school teacher in the Sumner County school system. He has a B.S. degree in organizational management from Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Named for the town of Gallatin, the plant is located on the north bank of the Cumberland River in Sumner County. Construction began in 1953, and the first of the four generators went into operation in 1956. In fiscal year 2002, the plant generated more than seven million megawatt hours of power, enough to supply the energy needs of some 400,000 residences in the Tennessee Valley.
TVA is the nation’s largest public power producer, and its power system is self-financed. TVA provides power to large industries and 158 power distributors that serve 8.3 million consumers in seven southeastern states.
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Judy Elb, Chattanooga (423-751-3180) or TVA News Bureau, Knoxville (865-632-6000)
