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The eight hydroelectric power plants located along the Aqueduct route provide Los Angeles with clean, low cost electricity in addition to providing power for LADWP facilities along the system. These plants generate more electricity than they consume. The Owens Valley Hydro Electric Gorge generating stations produce 122 Megawatts per hour of Operation. The normal run time for the units is 10 to 12 hours during the summer run schedule. The Hydro generating energy produced is enough power to serve roughly 179,000 homes per hour.
The hydropower generated from the electric power plant plus four substations provides electricity to more than 6,000 LADWP electric customers in the Owens Valley which includes both residential households and commercial businesses.
L.A. Aqueduct Power Facilities
Sylmar Converter Station – Pacific Intertie
Power Plants 1 & 2
Barren Ridge Switching Station
Haiwee Hydroelectric Power Station
Haiwee Reservoir
Cottonwood/Division Creek
Big Pine Power Plant
Pleasant Valley Reservoir
Owens River Gorge and Hydroelectric Plants
Renewable Energy
Large scale solar – Mojave Desert
Pine Tree Wind Farm and Pine Tree Solar – Tehachapi Mountains
History
L.A. Aqueduct
The construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct brought a reliable source of water to the arid city of Los Angeles. However, the aqueduct did much more, it also brought power to Los Angeles.
During the building of the aqueduct, the LADWP brought online Los Angeles’s first power plant—located at Cottonwood and Division Creeks and built in 1908—to supply hydroelectric power for the aqueduct’s construction.
The Bureau of Los Angeles Aqueduct Power (forerunner to the LADWP) was established in 1909, with Ezra F. Scattergood named as chief electrical engineering. As William Mulholland's counterpart for the Power System, Scattergood became the driving spirit in the development of the municipal electric system.
Interested in diving deeper into the history of power and the Los Angeles Aqueduct? Learn more from our archives, Intake Story: Power and the Aqueduct.
Contact
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