Hydro Relicensing

Alabama Power Company is relicensing nine hydroelectric power developments on the Coosa and Warrior rivers. These developments produce 1,160 megawatts of electricity and represent about 73 percent of Alabama Power's hydroelectric generation capacity.

Each of the nine developments operates under operating licenses issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Developments include: Smith and Bankhead on the Warrior River and Weiss, Neely Henry, Logan Martin, Lay, Mitchell, Bouldin and Jordan on the Coosa River.

FERC issues operating licenses for a period of 30 to 50 years. The Coosa and Warrior developments' licenses expire in 2007. To continue operating the hydro developments, Alabama Power must file applications with FERC for all the developments by June 30, 2005.

The relicensing process is a public process designed to address operational, economic and environmental issues associated with issuing new licenses to the projects.