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Show TABLE 1.-Existing hydroelectric power development Name State River Operating company or agency Installed capacity Average annual generation Storage Lay.......... Mitchell...... Jordan........ Martin....... Yates......... Thurlow...... Ala. Ala. Ala. Ala. Ala. Ala. Coosa.. ____do. ____do. Alabama Power Co. ____do........... TaUapoosa. .....do___ .....do___ .do. .do. .do. .do. 1,000 Kilowatts 64.8 72.5 100 99 32 50 1,000 Kilowatt- hours 366,000 376, 000 548,000 336, 000 136, 000 236,000 1,000 Acre-feet 37 33 44 1,375 9 Total non-Federal power plants Altoona....... Ga........ Total existing power. Etowah. Corps of Engineers. 418.3 74 1,198, 000 169, 000 1,498 253 492.3 2,167,000 1,751 1 Plants of 2,500 kilowatts or more installed capacity. acre-feet. Martin Reservoir on the Tallapoosa River accounts for 79 percent of this total. Total installed generating capacity for the entire southeastern region1 at the end of 1948 was 8 million kilowatts, of which 64 percent (5,107,000 kilowatts) was operated by private utility systems, 29 percent (2,340,000 kilowatts) by the Federal Government, and 7 percent (554,000 kilowatts) by non-Federal public agencies. Hydroelectric plants, with over 4 million kilowatts installed capacity, ac- counted for slightly more than half of the total. The peak demand of the region increased from about 7.7 million kilowatts in 1948 to 8.3 million kilowatts in 1949. During 1949, additional gen- erating facilities were under construction which will add 3,845,000 kilowatts capacity to the system. The Alabama-Coosa Basin is part of the South- eastern region for electric power generation trans- mission and marketing. The Alabama and Georgia power companies have distributed most of the power within this basin. Transmission lines of these companies are interconnected with those of the Mississippi Power Co. and the Gulf Power Co., as well as the lines of the companies on the Atlantic seaboard, the Ten- 1 The southeastern region as defined by the Federal Power Commission includes the nine-State area east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers. Tfcie nine States are Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. 534 nessee Valley Authority, and Kentucky companies. Coordinated operation of the generating facilities of these companies provides electric power to the nine-State region east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio River. The energy generated at the Allatoona hydro- electric plant, the only Federal electric plant in the basin, will be marketed by the Southeastern Power Administration along with the output from other Federal projects in the southeastern region. This power will be distributed and marketed in such a manner as to encourage its most widespread use at the lowest possible rates consistent with sound busi- ness principles and to give preference to public bodies and cooperatives in the sale of such power. Facilities in Construction and Authorized No hydroelectric plants are now under construc- tion in the Alabama-Coosa Basin. Four Federal projects have been authorized for which construc- tion funds have not been made available. These include the Howell Mill Shoals Project on the Coosa River for power, flood control, and future naviga- tion, and the Jones Bluff and Millers Ferry Proj- ects for power and navigation on the Alabama River. The ultimate installed capacity at these three plants will total 299,000 kilowatts. The Clai- borne Project, on the lower Alabama River, is authorized for navigation but will require more study in relation to the coordinated development of power and navigation with respect to the Tom- |