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<br />I <br />I <br /> <br />000755 <br /> <br />Numbel' of federal hydropower <br />plants on Colorado River <br />system: <br />11 <br /> <br />.. <br />U <br />z <br />e <br />... <br />" <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />l- <br />e <br /> <br />Total,g,enerating'capacity: <br />4,036.500 kW <br /> <br />Annual generation {bAAed <br />on 1991): <br />1l,750,488,R98 kW hours <br /> <br />Anuual revenues (1987-"1991): <br />$157,323,096 <br /> <br />Generates enough power to <br />meet,all.electrieal'ueeds of: <br />3 million people <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />Generate's. enough power 10, <br />m~,~~ parria.! electrical need:-> <br />of: <br />ApPl'Oximatel)' f) million <br />to 12 million people <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />WY <br /> <br />NV <br />0 0 00 <br />0 8809) 000 0 <br /> oc98~ 000 0 <br /> 00 0 o co <br /> 000 <br /> 00 0 <br /> 00 0 0 <br />AZ 0 o 0 <br />'6 NM <br /> 0'O~ 0 <br /> 0 <br />o~o <br />"8 0 0 0 0 <br />0 <br />00 <br /> <br />Colorado <br />River <br />Power <br />Contractors <br /> <br />~everal multipurpose <br />projects on the Colorado <br />River system include <br />power plants which gener- <br />ate electricity distributed <br />throughout the West The <br />power is marketed by the <br />Western Area Power <br />Administration (Western) <br />of the US Department of <br />Energy and is sold to "pref- <br />erence" customers - pub- <br />lic entities such as munici~ <br />palities or rural electric <br />cooperatives, These hydro <br />plants have a total generat- <br />ing capacity of 4,036,500 <br />kilowatts (kW), and in 1991 <br />produced 11,750,488,898 <br />kilowatt hours (kWh) of <br /> <br />energy, Revenues from <br />power sales averaged <br />$157,323,096 per year for <br />the period 1987-1991. <br />The costs of these pro- <br />jects are divided into reim- <br />bursable costs to be repaid <br />to the federal government <br />and nonreimbursable costs, <br />Reimbursable costs are <br />those associated with <br />power and water uses, The <br />power users, irrigators, and <br />municipal and industrial <br />water users are repaying <br />those costs, The nonreim- <br />bursable costs are those <br />associated with recreation, <br />flood control, and environ- <br />mental mitigation and <br />enhancement, and are an <br />obligation of the federal <br />government. <br /> <br />Power users are not sub- <br />sidized by the federal gov- <br />ernment Power is sold at <br />rates which generate rev- <br />enues sufficient to: recover <br />100 percent of the federal <br />investment in power facili- <br />ties plus interest; pay 100 <br />percent of the annual oper- <br />ation and maintenance of <br />power facilities; pay inter- <br />est on the federal invest- <br />ment; plus repay the feder- <br />al investment in irrigation <br />facilities "beyond the abili- <br />ty" of irrigators to repay- <br />more than 95 percent at <br />this point. <br />For example, in return <br />for a $974 million invest- <br />ment in the upper basin's <br /> <br />" <br />o <br />:IE <br />m <br />:D <br />