Generation

Sources of electricity

Platte River uses several sources of electricity generation capacity to meet its wholesale obligations to its four owner communities including:

Rawhide unit 1

Rawhide
unit 1
Coal
280 MW
Rawhide Units A, B, C, D, F

Rawhide units
A, B, C, D, F
Natural Gas
388 MW
Craig units 1 and 2

Craig units
1 and 2
Coal
151 MW
Federal _hydropower

Federal
hydropower
Hydropower
90 MW
Medicine Bow Wind Project

Medicine Bow
Wind Project
Wind
6 MW
Spring Canyon Wind_Energy Center

Spring Canyon Wind
Energy Center
Wind
60 MW
Rawhide Flats Solar

Rawhide
Flats Solar
Solar
30 MW
Total summer effective capacity
931 MW
Note: For reliability calculations, wind facilities are assigned firm capacity of 12.5 percent of their nameplate capacity and solar facilities are assigned 30 percent of their nameplate capacity.

Projected deliveries of energy in 2018 (communities) – proportions by source: