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The Shoshone Hydroelectric Generating Station is a hydroelectric power plant on the Colorado River east of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. In addition to its power output, the water rights the plant uses are among the oldest on the Colorado River, and play a major role in the flow of water to the Western Slope of Colorado .
Colorado electricity production by type. This is a list of electric power generation stations in the U.S. state of Colorado, sorted by type and name.As of December 2022, Colorado has a total summer capacity of 18,084 MW through all of its power plants, and a year long net generation in 2022 of 58,407 GWh. [2]
Buffalo Bill Dam with Shoshone Powerplant at right. The Shoshone Project is an irrigation project in the U.S. state of Wyoming.The project provides irrigation for approximately 107,000 acres (430 km 2) of crops in the Big Horn Basin, fulfilling the vision of local resident and developer Buffalo Bill Cody, who hoped to make the semi-arid basin into agricultural land.
The power plant at the Shoshone Generating Station was evacuated, along with the communities of No Name, Lookout Mountain, [6] and Coulter Creek. [3] The Glenwood Springs Community Center was named an evacuation point to connect evacuees with services and Battle Mountain High School was named an evacuation center.
In 1951 and 1952, the Public Service Company of Colorado replaced the hemp-cored 6-strand copper cable on the Shoshone line with steel-core aluminum cable. [6] By this time, the Shoshone generating station had been upgraded to 14.4 MW. [3] New towers were installed in the 1970s, with some changes in the path of the line. [7]
Buffalo Bill Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.Originally 325-foot (99 m), it was the tallest dam in the world [3] when it opened in 1910; a 25-foot (7.6 m) extension was added in 1992 in one of numerous changes and improvements to the structure and its support facilities, which include two full time power generators and two seasonal ...
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