Palisades Dam

OperatingHydro

Ranked #4 of 76 Hydro plants in ID#108 of 1454 nationally

176.4 MW Hydro operating in Bonneville, ID — Bonneville Power Administration

EIAGEMWD

176.4 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

units

Conventional Hydroelectric

Technology

1957

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

43.3348, -111.2058

County

Bonneville, ID

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	United States Bureau of Reclamation
Owner(s)	U S Bureau of Reclamation	US Bureau of Reclamation [100%]	United States Bureau of Reclamation
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

Palisades Dam is an earth-fill dam in the western United States, on the upper Snake River in eastern Idaho. Located in Bonneville County near the Wyoming border, the dam was completed 69 years ago in 1957.

Read more on Wikipedia

Palisades Dam is a hydroelectric power plant located in Bonneville County, Idaho. The plant has a total capacity of 176.4 MW consisting of 4 generators and utilizes water (WAT) as its primary fuel source. It began operating in 1957 and is owned and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Palisades Dam is the fourth-largest hydroelectric plant in Idaho (out of 5) and ranks 108th nationally (out of 194).

The plant operates within the Bonneville Power Administration balancing authority and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) NERC region. In the latest year with available data, Palisades Dam generated 744,402 MWh of electricity, achieving a capacity factor of 48.0%.

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