Power for Progress: GRDA by the numbers

Power for Progress …

    A weekly column from the Grand River Dam Authority

GRDA by the numbers …

With schools now back in session and students across the region once again studying reading, writing and arithmetic we thought it would be a good time to write about a few numbers of our own. As you read through them, we do hope you can see how the many facets of the Grand River Dam Authority mission add up to great benefits for the State of Oklahoma. 

• 15: That is the number of Oklahoma public power communities that receive their wholesale electricity supply from GRDA.
• 10: That is how many of these communities have been receiving GRDA wholesale electricity for more than 65 years.
• 4: And that’s how many of these communities have been GRDA public power partners for more than 75 years!
• 82,000: Combined, that is roughly the number of electric meters in these communities. GRDA delivers the electricity to the community-owned electric utility and that utility then resells it to these end-users. That is the public power model.
• 11: In millions of dollars, that is the approximate amount of money GRDA spends in a single year on government services, related to its lakes (security, water monitoring, ecological operations, economic development, etc.). And it is all done at no cost to Oklahoma taxpayers.
• 1: Did you know Pensacola Dam was Oklahoma’s first – number one -- hydroelectric facility?
• And finally, 83: That is how many years GRDA has been producing renewable hydroelectricity at Pensacola Dam. 

Your friends at GRDA want you to have a safe, productive, and enjoyable new school year!

GRDA is Oklahoma’s largest public power utility; fully funded by revenues from electric and water sales instead of taxes. Each day, GRDA strives to be an “Oklahoma agency of excellence” by focusing on the 5 E’s: electricity, economic development, environmental stewardship, employees, and efficiency.