This page is starting to accumulate a fair number of images and
diagrams and may be slow to download via modem. My intent is to
leave it as a single page for now. If you find it cumbersome to
download please let me know and I will consider breaking it into
separate pages. Grand Coulee Dam's hydroelectric generating
facilities include four powerhouses (counting the pumping plant)
with a total of 24 main generators, three station service
generators and six pump/generators. These provide a combined
generating capacity of 6480 megawatts. This makes Grand Coulee
Dam the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United
States and the third largest such facility in the world.
|Generators at Grand Coulee Dam|
|Location||Description||Number||Capacity (MW)||Total (MW)| |Left
Powerhouse||Station Service Generator||3||10||30| |Right
Powerhouse||Main Generator||9||125||1125| |Third
Powerhouse||Main Generator||3||600||1800| Above is a cutaway
view of a turbine/generator assembly. As can be seen, water
entering the tur