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Where Is Hydro?
Types of Hydro

As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.

hydro in our state

state resources
The first hydroelectric plant for lighting a whole town was invented on a stream in Etowah County near Attalla by W. P. Lay in 1887.
Alabama’s many rivers flow from the Appalachian highlands toward the Gulf of Mexico, and several dams along those rivers provide hydroelectric power.
Twenty-three hydroelectric dams provided almost 8% of the state’s electricity net generation in 2019.
In 2019, renewable energy sources generated about 10% of Alabama’s in-state electricity. Hydroelectric facilities accounted for nearly three-fourths of the state’s renewable electricity generation.