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Western Area Power Administration Snapshot
There's power in the West, thanks to Western Area Power Administration. One of four power marketing agencies of the US Department of Energy, the enterprise operates 57 hydroelectric power plants and one fossil-fueled power generation facility with a combined generating capacity of about 10,480 MW. It also manages and maintains more than 17,100 miles of transmission lines. Western Area Power Administration sells wholesale power to investor-owned, government-owned, and cooperative utilities, power marketers, federal agencies, native American tribes and other electricity users (more than 680 direct customers with a total of 11.4 million end users) in 15 western states over a 1.3-million-sq.-mi. service area.
