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Corps of Engineers: Hydropower

This program generates hydropower at 75 Federal multi-purpose dams with a total capability of 21,000 megawatts, the largest in the USA. About three percent of the nation's electricity is produced by Corps hydropower facilities, a clean, reliable source of power for the nation.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program's performance generally has declined over the past 10 years. System availability has been declining as much of the infrastructure is approching the end of its design life.
  • The Corps does not have an overall short-term and long-term asset management strategy. Each regional office develops its own plan for the maintenance, major rehabilitation, and replacement of its equipment.
  • Performance results reflect high forced outage rates, the lack of a quality, systematic program evaluation and the failure to develop a strategy for undertaking major rehabilitations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Developing a comprehensive asset management strategy to better account for the inventory, value, condition and reliability of its hydropower assets.
  • Developing a program-wide strategy to better plan for the future funding of needed hydropower improvements.

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