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Sources of Electricity
Platte River uses several sources of electric capacity to meet its wholesale obligations to its four owner municipalities, including: (1) federal hydropower delivered via purchase from Western Area Power Administration, (2) the coal-fired Yampa Project near Craig, Colorado, (Platte River owns 18% of Units 1 and 2, (3) the 274 MW (net) coal-fired Rawhide Energy Station Unit 1, (4) four natural gas-fired combustion turbines -- Units A, B, C, and D, at the Rawhide site, (5) ten wind turbines operating near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and (6) purchases from the wholesale electricity market in the region. To deliver these sources, Platte River owns either wholly or jointly about 700 miles of transmission lines and multiple substations.
Rawhide Energy Station
Yampa
Wind
Hydroelectricity
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