8209

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8209
• Author: Rochester, H., T. Lloyd and M. Farr.
• Title: Physical Impacts of Small-Scale Hydroelectric Facilities and Their Effects on Fish and Wildlife.
• USFW Year: 1984.
• USFW - Doc Type: 14-16-0009-82-020,
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 2. Annual power production from a hydroelectric site at three different
installed capacities. This is the same site as in Figure 5, the Great Falls
of the Passaic River, Paterson, New Jersey (Data from U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers 1979).

Installed
capacity (MW)

Total hypothetical
output (kWh)a

Actual projected
output (kWh)b

Percentage of
hypothetical
output obtained

Gross income
at $0.06 per kWh

N
o

4.6
6.5
10.6

40,296,000
56,940,000
92,856,000

22,800,000
27,600,000
37,200,000

57
48

$ 1,368,000
1,656,000
2,232,000

40

aIf the plant ran all year (8,760 hours) at full rated capacity.

bBased on the. discharge pattern shown in Figure 3; average monthly outputs: 4.6 MW, 1.9 million kWh;
6.5 MW, 2.3 kWh; and 10.6 MW, 3.1 million kWh.