To help meet the region's electric power generation needs, SWD operates and maintains 18 hydroelectric power plants to provide power on demand at least cost to the customer. Our hydroelectric power plants ultimately serving nearly 7 million people. Our customers are Rural Electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, military installations and users of electricity within the Southwestern Power Administration marketing area.
There are also 8 non-federal hydropower plants located at our facilities in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas that are operated by local power authorities at no cost to the government.
Hydroelectric plants at SWD projects produce 4,885 gwh, or 87% of the hydroelectric power in the region. That power brings in $78.9 million in revenue when it is sold to power companies.
