Vermont Hydro Power

Winooski

VT Water Power History

• Our water ways have been used for mechanical power since the earliest European settlers

• For sawmills, gristmills, cotton mills, carding mills, and producers of machine tools, scales, paper, and pulp

How much and from what?

• as late as 1940, 90 percent of Vermont's needs were met by stations operating solely on water power

• In 1999 29.4% of our power was hydroelectric

• 10.8% was from utilities

• 18.7% was from non-utilties

• Today Vermont uses 1000 mw a day

• Ten Largest Plants by Generating Capability, 1999-Summer mw capacity

    •  1. Vermont Yankee      Nuclear Vermont Yankee Nucl Pwr Corp 506  •  2. J C McNeil       Petroleum,Gas, Other Burlington City of 52   • 3. Berlin 5              Petroleum Green Mountain Power Corp 41  • 4. Bellows FLS          Hydro US Gen New England Inc 40  •  5. Wilder                Hydro US Gen New England Inc 37  •  6. Harriman              Hydro US Gen New England Inc 33 •  7. Sheldon Springs  Hydro Missisquoi Associates 26   • 8. Ryegate Power Other Ryegate Associates 21 • 9. Vernon               Hydro US Gen New England Inc 20  • 10. Burlington GT         Petroleum Burlington City of 20

Our Power

• VT power Production

Some VT Hydro Stations

Comerford Station whose four large generators

produce 164 megawatts of power

• The Vernon station whose eight turbines produce 22 megawatts of electric power

• The Bellows Falls station whose three generating units draw on water flowing through the historic 1791 canal and produce 49 megawatts of electric power

• The Wilder station, consisting of a 2,900‑feet long dam and three generators which produce 42 megawatts of power;

The Moore Station, the largest hydro-generating facility on the Connecticut River which encompasses a 3,490‑acre storage reservoir and whose power output totals 192 megawatts

• McIndoes Station whose 13 megawatts of power serve primarily to smooth the uneven water flows which result from the Comerford station’s operation

Government Model of Hydro Resources in VT

• There are 29 dams that produce power with a potential of 62.9 mw and modeled 31.8mw

• There are 70 dams without power with a potential of 261.4 mw and modeled 131.1mw

• There are 50 undeveloped sites with a potential of 90.1 mw and modeled 11.7mw

Semi Current Events

• VT had a chance to buy 8 hydro dams in VT

• 2 on the Deerfield River and 6 on the Connecticut River

• Total of 527mw or 50% of our power