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Mount Elbert hydroelectric plant
88th-largest grid storage in United States of 101 · top 86% worldwide (#829 of 965)
- Operator
- US Bureau of Reclamation
- Owner
- US Bureau of Reclamation
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 200 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · United States · 101 ranked
- #1Red Lake Pumped hydroelectric plant3.0 GW
- #86Delaney Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant200 MW
- #87J. S. Eastwood hydroelectric plant200 MW
- #88Mount Elbert hydroelectric plant200 MW
- #89Ruby Hill hydroelectric plant200 MW
- #90Hiwassee hydroelectric plant166 MW
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Mount Elbert hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 200 MW · hydro
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Watercourse: Fryingpan River
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)