McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation system. Hydroelectric power generation. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6762841

This report presents an analysis of the hydroelectric generating facilities in the McClellan-Kerr River Project. Installed capacity of the federal installations total 639 megawatts. Economic and financial questions of production and marketing are examined (the power is sold by a federal agency, the Southwestern Power Administration). Due to the rising cost of other fuels, the power benefits are expected to rise from a project justification estimate of $14 million to over $40 million. However, benefits are not as high as possible, primarily due to poor marketing practices by the SPA. There are also several problems in the cost allocation formula used to rate the on-going return on investment to the Federal Government for each dam taken individually.

• Research Organization: Institute for Water Resources (Army), Fort Belvoir, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6762841
• Report Number(s): AD-A-054148; IWR-RR-77-R4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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