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This category contains articles about hydroelectric power plants in the U.S. state of Texas. Pages in category "Hydroelectric power plants in Texas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
LCRA operates six hydroelectric dams along the Colorado River in Central Texas that provide a source of renewable energy and form six lakes collectively known as the Texas Highland Lakes: Buchanan Dam (54.9 MW) - forms Lake Buchanan; Inks Dam (13.8 MW) - forms Inks Lake; Wirtz Dam (60 MW) - forms Lake LBJ, which also serves as a cooling pond ...
Falcon Dam: Rio Grande: Hydro 63 International Boundary and Water Commission: 1954 [69] Inks Dam: Colorado River (Texas) Hydro 15 Lower Colorado River Authority: 1938 [70] Mansfield Dam: Colorado River (Texas) Hydro 102 Lower Colorado River Authority: 1941 [71] R.C. Thomas Hydroelectric Project: Trinity River (Texas) Hydro 24 East Texas ...
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
Amistad Dam (Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico. Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control , and hydropower generation , it is the largest dam along the international boundary reach of the Rio Grande. [ 1 ]
US hydropower generated 1949-2008 (blue), and hydropower as percent of total US electricity (red). Hydroelectric power generation in the United States. The earliest hydroelectric power generation in the U.S. was utilized for lighting and employed the better understood direct current (DC) system to provide the electrical flow.
Tom Miller Dam is a dam located on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin, aided by funds from the Public Works Administration , constructed the dam for the purpose of flood control and for generating hydroelectric power .