Lower Mississippi Region Comprehensive Study. Appendix R. Power.
Abstract
The study of electric energy generation and distribution for this report has been related primarily to the area served by systems of the Southwest Power Pool, a regional reliability and coordinating organization, and encompassing the principal market area for hydroelectric power generated in the Lower Mississippi Region. This market area includes the States of Arkansas and Louisiana and portions of Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas but excludes portions of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee which are within the Lower Mississippi Region. Federal power in the Lower Mississippi Region is marketed by the Southwestern Power Administration except that hydroelectric power developed in these latter areas would be marketed by the Southeastern Power Administration. The major portion of the LOwer Mississippi Region lies in PSA 25 which is served to a major extent by Middle South Utilities and associated systems. The basin also includes part of PSA 35 in which Gulf States Utilities Company is the principal electric utility. Of the twenty-eight members of the Southwest Power Pool, nine, including Middle South Utilities, operate extensively in the Lower Mississippi Region. An analysis of power requirements was made with base power loads and resources being those for the year 1970. Detailed projections are available only to the year 1990 which provides for extraction of data by PSA's for the projection year 1990. The only electric power data presented herein for the year 2000 and 2020 have been 'trended' in terms of the entire power market area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- ADA041367