Hastings Lock & Dam P-4306

General information
Waterway	Mississippi River
Current status	Active license
Type of facility	Conventional Hydro
Mode of hydropower generation	Run-of-river
Type of permit	FERC License
FERC information
FERC docket #	P-4306
FERC project name	Mississippi Lock & Dam No 2
Permit issued	7/6/83
Permit expiration	6/26/33
Ownership and operation
Owner	City of Hastings Hydroelectric
Owner type	Publicly Owned Utility
Year first online (conventional hydro)	1992
Transmission or distribution system owner	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
Power and generating capacity
Number of units	2
Total capacity from hydraulic turbine-generator units within each plant	4.4 MW
Average annual net hydropower generation	19,753.4 MWH

In 2008, the City of Hastings and Hydro Green Energy collaborated to add two hydrokinetic turbines in the existing project and requested FERC for approval.

FERC approved the request in December 2008 by amending the existing license.

This is the first in-river hydrokinetic project that makes use of hydrokinetic turbines to generate electricity.