Applegate Dam hydroelectric project dead in water

By Mark Freeman
Register-Guard

The federal government has pulled the plug on a utility company’s more than decade-long effort to build a hydropower generation system at Applegate Dam, saying the company’s work window has expired.

The license holder, AG Hydro, failed to begin construction of the 10-megawatt generator at the Southern Oregon dam by the December 2013 deadline, despite receiving a two-year extension on its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license granted in 2009. Read more