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Southwestern Power Administration

Southwestern markets the hydroelectric power produced at 24 multipurpose dams to publicly held entities such as rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities. Southwestern maintains a 1,380 mile transmission system and markets its power to over one hundred utility customers that serve over 7 million people.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Due to the extreme drought experienced during FY 2005 and FY 2006, Southwestern utilized the Continuing Fund to purchase power in order to fulfill its contractual obligations to customers.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Southwestern will develop a plan to repay any purchase power and wheeling expenditures made through the Continuing Fund within one year.

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