# Ozark Beach

SPP asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/ozark-beach

The Empire District Electric Company - Taney County - SPP

Ozark Beach is a 16 MW conventional hydroelectric plant with four generating units on the White River in Taney County, Missouri. The dam impounds Lake Taneycomo between the U.S. Army Corps' Table Rock Dam upstream and Bull Shoals Lake downstream, and the powerhouse discharges directly into Bull Shoals. The plant operates under FERC Project No. 2221, whose license expired February 28, 2022; Empire filed for a new license in February 2020 and has been running on annual license extensions while FERC completes relicensing, most recently holding a programmatic-agreement consultation on the project in August 2026. As part of relicensing, Empire/Liberty has proposed raising the dam's Obermeyer gates from four to six feet to add head and firm up lake levels for boating. Ozark Beach sells into the Southwest Power Pool market.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 16 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 6280 — plant-6280

## Facts

- **Technology:** Conventional Hydroelectric
- **Operator:** The Empire District Electric Company

## Related parties

- **Regulator:** Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — Federal hydropower licensing and regulatory authority ([source](https://www.ferc.gov/hydropower/environmental-documents))
- **Interconnection counterparty / interconnecting utility:** U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Land administrator and upstream/downstream project operator; coordinates flows ([source](https://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lakes/Table-Rock-Lake/))
- **Financier:** Henry Doherty — Construction financier
- **Parent company:** Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. — Parent company of operating utility

## Sources

- [mbrweb.ferc.gov](https://mbrweb.ferc.gov/SearchlkpEIA/Index?page=30) — mbrweb.ferc.gov · authoritative — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [public-inspection.federalregister.gov](https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-24231.pdf) — public-inspection.federalregister.gov · authoritative — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Canonical page: https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/ozark-beach
Website: [Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (through Liberty Utilities Co.)](https://libertyutilities.com/)

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