# Rumford Falls Hydro Facility

ISO-NE asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/rumford-falls-hydro-facility

Rumford Falls Hydro LLC - Oxford County - ISONE

The Rumford Falls Hydro Facility is located on the Androscoggin River at river mile 80 in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine. It comprises two discrete hydroelectric developments: the Upper Station Development (29.3 MW nameplate capacity) and the Lower Station Development (15.2 MW nameplate capacity), operated by Rumford Falls Hydro LLC under FERC Project No. 2333. The facility operates in run-of-river mode with six conventional hydroelectric generating units and an 8 MW / 16 MWh battery-storage system added under a FERC non-capacity amendment.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 48.2 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 10493 — plant-10493

## Facts

- **Technology:** Batteries, Conventional Hydroelectric
- **Operator:** Brookfield Power New England

## Related parties

- **Project company / owner:** Rumford Falls Hydro LLC — FERC licensee and owner ([source](https://rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com/))
- **Parent company:** Brookfield Renewable — parent of project company ([source](https://bep.brookfield.com/))
- **Developer:** Hugh J. Chisholm — Historical developer
- **EPC contractor / construction contractor:** E.S. Boulos Company — EPC contractor for battery installation

## Sources

- [esboulos.com](https://esboulos.com/news/e-s-boulos-successfully-completes-epc-battery-storage-projects/) — esboulos.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [lowimpacthydro.org](https://lowimpacthydro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rumford-Falls-LIHI-Recertification-Application-20190312.pdf) — lowimpacthydro.org · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com](https://rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com/) — rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com](https://rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com/community-involvement/) — rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com](https://rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2020/07/20200708-500734142470.pdf) — rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Website: [Rumford Falls Hydro LLC](https://rumford.brookfieldusprojects.com/)

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