• 115kV transmission line near Kiowa Creek substation in Colorado.
  • Green Mountain Dam is on the western slope 13 miles southeast of Kremmling on the Blue River, a tributary of the Colorado. This dam provides replacement storage for water diverted by the Colorado-Big Thompson project to the eastern slope. The Green Mountain reservoir has a total capacity of 154,600 acre-feet.
  • Photo of Guernsey Dam generators inside the powerhouse.
  • Seminoe reservoir created by Seminoe Dam
  • Marys Lake provides afterbay and forebay capacity for reregulating water flow as part of the Colorado Big Thompson Project. Marys Lake Powerplant provides generation of hydroelectric power for the project.
  • Twin Lakes Reservoir is part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in Colorado.

About Rocky Mountain

​The Platte River Power Authority in Colorado, Nebraska Public Power District, Kansas Electric Power Cooperative and Wyoming Municipal Power Agency are just some of the customers served by WAPA’s Rocky Mountain Region.

Provide services

Rocky Mountain serves its preference customers in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas.  We sell more than 2.3 billion kilowatt-hours of power, generating from 19 hydroelectric plants.  These plants are part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program–Western Division and sold as the Loveland Area Projects.

​The Rocky Mountain Region is one of four regions of the Western Area Power Administration.

Rocky Mountain sells power in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas to wholesale customers such as towns, rural electric cooperatives, public utility and irrigation districts, federal, state, and military agencies, Native American tribes and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation customers.

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Last modified on April 30th, 2024