Glen Canyon Dam

OperatingHydro

Ranked #1 of 11 Hydro plants in AZ#11 of 1454 nationally

1312 MW Hydro operating in Coconino, AZ — Western Area Power Administration - Desert Southwest Region

EIAGEMWD

1,312 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

units

Conventional Hydroelectric

Technology

1964

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

36.9366, -111.4839

County

Coconino, AZ

Nearby Plants

Glen Canyon Solar A, LLC
Solar95 MW · 27.5 km

Ownership & Operator

Owner data does not fully agree across sources.

EIA typically reports the operating utility, while GEM resolves to the financial owner or parent corporation. Both can be correct.

Field	EIA	GEM	Wikidata
Operator	U S Bureau of Reclamation	US Bureau of Reclamation	—
Owner(s)	U S Bureau of Reclamation	US Bureau of Reclamation [100%]	—
Status	Operating	operating	—

Ownership Chain

GEM identifies the owner as US Bureau of Reclamation [100%]

This entity is not yet in the GEM ownership database — chain unavailable.

About

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page. The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km3). The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado River's Grand Canyon by boat.

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Glen Canyon Dam is a hydroelectric power plant located in Coconino County, Arizona. The plant has a total capacity of 1312 MW consisting of 8 generators and is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It began operating in 1964, utilizing conventional hydroelectric technology with water (WAT) as its primary fuel source. Glen Canyon Dam is the largest hydroelectric plant in Arizona and ranks 11th nationally among hydroelectric facilities.

The plant's latest annual generation was 2,752,624 MWh, resulting in a capacity factor of 24.0%. Glen Canyon Dam operates within the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) NERC region and is under the balancing authority of the Western Area Power Administration - Desert Southwest Region.

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