# Meldahl Hydroelectric Project

PJM asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/meldahl-hydroelectric-project

Meldahl LLC - Bracken County - PJM

Meldahl is a 105-megawatt run-of-river hydroelectric plant built into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Captain Anthony B. Meldahl Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Bracken County, Kentucky. The project is jointly held under a FERC license (Project No. 12667, originally issued to Hamilton in 2008) by the City of Hamilton, Ohio and American Municipal Power, a nonprofit joint-action agency representing dozens of municipal electric systems; Hamilton runs the plant day to day and AMP's participating members take a contracted share of the output. The Low Impact Hydropower Institute certified the project as low-impact for a term running through September 2032. Meldahl sells its output into PJM, settling at its own plant-level generation nodes rather than at a distant hub.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 105 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 56872 — plant-56872

## Facts

- **Technology:** Conventional Hydroelectric
- **Operator:** City of Hamilton, Ohio

## Related parties

- **Owner:** U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Owner and operator of adjacent lock and dam infrastructure
- **Construction contractor:** Sargent Electric — Electrical-construction contractor ([source](https://sargentelectric.com/project/meldahl-hydroelectric))
- **Transmission owner / interconnecting utility:** Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. — Transmission owner for interconnection point

## Sources

- [lowimpacthydro.org](https://lowimpacthydro.org/meldahl-project/) — lowimpacthydro.org · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [psc.ky.gov](https://psc.ky.gov/tariffs/electric/Kentucky%20Utilities%20Company/Contracts/Current/American%20Municipal%20Power,%20Inc/2014-10-13_Agreement%20for%20Back-Up%20Electric%20Service%20and%20Retail%20Electric%20Transmission%20Service.pdf) — psc.ky.gov · authoritative — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [sargentelectric.com](https://sargentelectric.com/project/meldahl-hydroelectric) — sargentelectric.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Canonical page: https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/meldahl-hydroelectric-project
Website: [City of Hamilton, Ohio and American Municipal Power (AMP) (co-licensees)](https://www.hamilton-oh.gov/utility-operations)

Source: Ask the Grid — https://askthegrid.com/