Platte River Power Authority
- 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.
- Platte River Integrated Resource Plan
Resource planning is a continuous and dynamic process at Platte River Power Authority. One output of the process is our Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). Produced every five years, the IRP is a critical tool for ensuring an adequate supply of reliable, low-cost and environmentally responsible electricity to meet the future needs of our member municipalities. Its details Platte River's plans in the areas of generating and transmission projects, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
As you read Platte River's 2007 IRP, please keep in mind that it represents a view of conditions as they stood when it was written. Many of the issues and assumptions presented will change as our owner-municipalities' needs and available resource options envolve.
