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Sources
of Electricity
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Platte
River uses several sources of electricity generation capacity to
meet its wholesale obligations to its four owner
municipalities including: (1) the coal-fired Rawhide Energy Station Unit 1, (2)
five natural gas-fired combustion turbines--Units A, B, C, D and
F at the Rawhide site, (3) the Medicine Bow Wind Project and the
Silver
Sage Windpower Project, (4) the coal-fired Yampa Project near Craig,
Colorado, (Platte River owns 18 percent of Units 1 and 2, (5) federal
hydropower delivered via purchase from Western Area Power Administration
and (6) purchases from the wholesale electricity market in the
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- Rawhide
Unit One (coal)--280 MW
- Rawhide
Units A, B, C, D, F (natural gas)--388
MW (summer); 466 MW (winter)
- Yampa Project
(coal)--154 MW
- Federal
Hydropower--90 MW (summer); 117
MW (winter)
- Medicine
Bow Wind Project--8 MW
- Silver
Sage Windpower Projcect--12 MW
Total Capacity--940 MW (summer); 1,045 MW (winter)
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Energy
Delivered to Platte River's Four Municipalities in 2009--Proportions
by Source: |
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- Coal 79.5%
- Hydropower 19.6%
- Wind Power and Renewable Energy Certificates 4.2%
- Unspecified
Purchases 0.4%
- Natural
Gas 0.3%
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