# Salina

SPP asset profile · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/salina

Grand River Dam Authority - Mayes County - SPP

Salina Pumped Storage Project is a hydroelectric pumped-storage plant with six operating generating units totaling 259.2 MW in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The facility is owned and operated by the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), the state agency that runs the Grand River hydro system. It was built in two stages, with the first three units completed in 1968 and the second three in 1971, doubling capacity to 260 MW. Water is cycled between the upper Lake W. R. Holway reservoir on Saline Creek and the lower Lake Hudson reservoir on the Grand River, pumping uphill at night and generating during peak daytime demand. GRDA filed a new FERC license application for the project, designated FERC Project No. 2524, in November 2013, and FERC staff issued a draft environmental assessment on relicensing in November 2014. The plant is typically dispatched as peaking capacity because its units can be brought online quickly.

## Metrics

- **Nameplate capacity:** 259.2 MW — Canonical EIA plant baseline.
- **Registry anchor:** Plant 2982 — plant-2982

## Facts

- **Technology:** Hydroelectric Pumped Storage
- **Operator:** Grand River Dam Authority

## Related parties

- **Owner / operator / developer:** Grand River Dam Authority — Project developer, owner, and operator ([source](https://grda.com/))
- **Regulator:** Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — Federal hydropower licensing and regulatory authority ([source](https://www.ferc.gov/))
- **Construction contractor:** Litostroj, US, LLC — Units 5 and 6 modernization and pump-turbine refurbishment contractor ([source](https://www.litostroj.com/))

## Sources

- [grda.com](https://grda.com/grda-to-begin-salina-pumped-storage-modernization-work) — grda.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [grda.com](https://grda.com/grdas-salina-pumped-storage-project) — grda.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [grda.com](https://grda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GRDA-2010-Annual-Financial-Report.pdf) — grda.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.
- [grda.com](https://grda.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/08-12-21-Board-Meeting-Final-Approved-Minutes.pdf) — grda.com · public_source — Source retained for exact-record publication review.

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Website: [Grand River Dam Authority](https://grda.com/)

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