Rawhide Unit F
Simple Cycle Combustion Turbine
Platte River Power Authority is a not-for-profit wholesale electricity generation and transmission provider that delivers
safe, reliable, environmentally responsible and competitively priced energy and services to its owner communities of Estes
Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, Colorado for delivery to their utility customers.
Commercial Operations:
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2008
safe, reliable, environmentally
128 megawatts
responsible, and competitively
Natural gas
priced energy and services.
Peaking
Operations
 Provides 80% of peaking energy
on an annual basis.
 Resource averages 5% capacity
factor on an annual basis.
 Most utilized peaking resource at
128 net megawatts.
Platte River’s Mission is to provide
Rawhide Unit F
Costs
 Most efficient of Platte River’s
gas turbines at 10,000 heat rate.
 No debt service.
Environmental
 Lowest emissions peaking unit.
 Approximately 36% less carbon
emissions than coal resources.
 Approximately 69% less NOx
emission than coal resources.