Generation - Platte River Power Authority

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

Rawhide
Unit One

Coal

280 MW

Rawhide Units
A, B, C, D, F

Natural Gas

388 MW

Craig Units
1 & 2

Coal

154 MW

Federal
Hydropower

Hydropower

90 MW

Medicine Bow
Wind Project

Wind

6 MW

Silver Sage
Windpower Project

Wind

12 MW

Spring Canyon Wind
Energy Center

Wind

60 MW

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% of their nameplate capacity and solar facilities are assigned 30% of their nameplate capacity.

Projected Energy Delivered to Platte River’s Four Municipalities in 2016 – Proportions by Source:

Note: Solar operations began in October 2016.

Projected Energy Delivered to Platte River’s Four Municipalities in 2016 – Proportions by Source:

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