Cover Story. Gas-Fired Top Plants: Tenaska Virginia Generating Station, Scottsville, Virginia

Power, Sep 2007

Every year, the plant hosts a "9-11 Appreciation Day" barbecue in September to honor the area's first responders: policemen, firemen, and emergency medical technicians.

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TVGS has operated for the past three years without any notice of violations of its permits. Its success can be attributed to the drive for excellence that best-practices training has instilled in the plant's permanent staff of 28.

The training program has given employees new skills and new opportunities, improved their job satisfaction and morale, and made them more valuable to Tenaska. Staff members are very dedicated to their work and each one has a can-do attitude (Figure 4).

Best-practices training has enabled every employee of TVGS to play a larger role in making TVGS a lower-cost plant and one that is faster on its feet. It's not only fulfilling, but also fun, to be part of a plant that works so well.