Talk:Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station

Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station has been Relicensed & Solded, please update. dond (talk) 21:31, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station has been relicensed, upgraded and sold, and white-water recreation needs to be added, please update article.

Here are a few URLs providing information for this update:

Upgrade:
U.S. approves 66-MW increase for 600-MW Bear Swamp Reverse Engineering the Bookfield Renewable Power Plant Owner to add 66 MW to 600-MW Bear Swamp Bear Swamp Pumped Storage Upgrade | NHA Regional Meeting 09.10.08. PUMPED STORAGE HYDRO IN NEW ENGLAND, (Detailed Numbers & Calculations), 2017.

Sales:
Bear Swamp Sold, Jan-2005. Aasset Bear Swamp, 2005. [http://www.negt.com/ NEGT's USGen New England, Inc... sale of its hydroelectric generation assets to an affiliate of TransCanada Corporation, Mar-2005.] Deerfield dams sold to investment firm in Boston, Nov-2011.

Relicensing:
Bear Swamp hydroelectric generation project up for license renewal Bear Swamp -- Federal Register DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR HYDROPOWER LICENSE Bear Swamp Project, FERC Docket No. P-2669-089 CRC and DRWA file Motion to Intervene in Bear Swamp/Fife Brook Dam License Bear Swamp Project (FERC Project No. 2669-085) July 28, 2017 Flow Regime Working Group Meeting Summary

White-water Recreation:
Green groups, rafters want say in Bear Swamp water releases. National Rivers Project; Deerfield River, MA; The Dryway (Monroe Bridge to Bear Swamp) Deerfield River Watershed Association, Boating and Tubing Zoar Outdoor, The Deerfield River Dryway American White Water; Deerfield River-3) THE DRYWAY is a popular class III-IV river that can draw a rather sizable crowd on release days. Another Boston 2024 Surprise -- Owners of hydroelectric plant that controls Deerfield River flows say they never heard from Olympics organizers

Efficiency Weasel Words
"Although the efficiency of that is very low, the power is stored when demand is off peak"

Maybe this wording can be improved with some numbers. "Efficiency is very low" can imply different things to different people: 20%, 50%, 75%, 90%, etc. Going from memory, generic pumped hydro is typically in the 70%-80% range, although I don't know the numbers for this site. 2601:98A:4400:2E50:8509:EFAF:1FDA:A85B (talk) 04:22, 21 November 2023 (UTC)