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Show supply. It has a generating plant of 1,000 kilo- watts capacity. At the end of 1949 the total installed generating capacity in New England, exclusive of Maine, amounted to approximately 4.5 million kilowatts, of which about 3.5 million kilowatts capacity was operated by private utility systems and about 1 mil- lion kilowatts by industrial establishments. Hydro- electric plants with 815,000 kilowatts installed ac- counted for 18 percent of the total capacity, the re- mainder being in fuel-electric stations. Hydro- electric capacity, a large portion of which is rela- tively remote from the principal load centers, is generally peaking capacity. Fuel-electric capacity, most of which is near the principal load centers, supplies most of the base load energy. Most of the power plants on rivers in New England, other than the Connecticut, operate at high plant factors be- cause of small ponds and small installations. A few run-of-the-river sites have been redeveloped for peak power operation. Present hydroelectric power facilities in the basin are shown in table 1. TABLE 1.-Present hydroelectric power facilities Plant name State River Operating company or agency * Ulti- mate installed capacity Average annual genera- tion Active storage capacity Comerford...... Mclndoos....... WUder.......... Bellows Falls..... Vernon......... Vernon......... Turners Falls----- Cabot........... Searsburg....... Harriman....... Sherman........ DeerfieldNo. 5... Deerfield No. 4... DeerfieldNo." 3... Gardner Falls... . DeerfieldNo. 2... HolyokeNo. 2.. . Holyoke No. 1... Three Rivers..... Indian Orchard.. Gobble Mountain. Rainbow........ N. H. N. H. Vt... Vt... Vt... N. H. Mass. Mass. Vt... Vt.... Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Mass. Conn. Total-non-Fed- eral plants (22). Connecticut. ....do..... .do. .do. .do. .do. .do. .do. Deerfield. ____do.. ____do.. .do. .do. .do. ____do..... ____do..... Connecticut. ____do..... Chicopee....... .....do......... Little (Westfield). Fannington..... Federal plants None Non- Federal plants 3 CRP CRP NEP NEP CRP CRP WME WME NEP NEP NEP NEP NEP NEP WME NEP HWP HWP NEP WME WME FRP Kilowatts 140, 400 10, 560 5,220 40,800 8,400 16,000 4,840 51, 000 4,000 33, 600 7,200 15, 000 4,800 4,800 3,980 4,800 2,900 7,640 3,200 4,900 33, 000 8,000 1,000 kilowatt hours 310, 000 46, 000 28, 000 225, 000 135, 000 8,650 243, 350 27, 000 96, 000 28, 000 83,000 32,000 37,000 16, 800 34,000 18,000 44,000 8,000 12, 000 20,000 28,000 Acre-feet 27, 000 5,000 9,500 12, 000 9,000 116, 000 65, 000 415, 040 1, 479, 800 * 243, 500 1 Abbreviations are as follows: CRP-Connecticut River Power Co.; NEP-New England Power Co.; WME-Western Massachusetts Electric Co.; HWP-Holyoke Water Power Co.; FRP-Farmington River Power Co. 2 Plants of 2,500 kilowatts or more installed capacity. 8 Does not include the following important reservoirs: Connecticut Lakes-88,000 acre-feet; Lake Francis-99,000 acre-feet; Mascoma Lakes-24,000 acre-feet; and Somerset Reservoir-57,000 acre-feet. Source: Federal Power Commission. 475 |
