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In 1925, the Morse family created Carolina Mountain Power Company. [3] This company funded dam construction on the Broad River which produced the lake after which the town is named. [3] The dam took two years to build and Lake Lure was finally impounded and filled by 1927. [4]
Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station in Marion County, just west of Chattanooga in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the plant can generate a maximum of 1,652 megawatts of electricity.
The Dinorwig Power Station (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɔːr w ɪ ɡ /; Welsh: [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]), known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales. The scheme can supply a maximum power of 1,728 MW (2,317,000 hp) and has a storage ...
The reservoir at the foot of the mountain was created by impounding the Schoharie Creek downstream from the village of Gilboa, New Water from this reservoir is sent through a concrete shaft up the mountain to the upper reservoir ( 42°26′40″N 74°25′35″W / 42.44444°N 74.42639°W / 42.44444; -74.42639 ) to be stored until it ...
Intermountain Power Plant is a large coal-fired power plant at Delta, Utah, US. ... Construction on the plant began in September 1981. Commercial operation of unit 1 ...
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake. The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power ) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity .
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The Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant is a pumped-storage power plant located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Rome in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is named after Rock Mountain on top of which the plant's upper reservoir is located. Construction on the plant began in 1977 and it was commissioned in 1995.