Flatiron Power Plant, Colorado

The Flatiron Power Plant is a hydroelectric plant at the Flatiron Reservoir north of Boulder, Colorado, with a small pump-back capacity. It has two conventional turbines that produce around 86 megawatts, and a third much smaller one that is reversible, enabling it to lift water from the Flatiron Reservoir to the nearby Carter Lake Reservoir. The plant is on the downstream end of a chain of nearly 100 facilities that make up the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado-Big Thompson Project, that spans 250 miles and brings water from the Colorado River over the Continental Divide.