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To: russet who wrote (23857)10/19/2010 9:26:54 PM
From: Eric  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
yup

I just love hydro! 99% of our local utility is hydro here.

(but I feed in solar generated electricity to my utility!)

Gotta love clean! No hydrocarbons spitting out here while generating electrons..



To: russet who wrote (23857)10/20/2010 8:10:39 AM
From: Eric  Respond to of 86355
 
Hydroelectric Fleet
Generating Capacity: 6,963 MW
Stations: 65
2009 Output: 36.2 TWh
Currently Generating:
4024 MW


Pretty impressive numbers.

Just one of our dams here on the Columbia can put out virtually that much power!