PG&E files Surrender Application for Potter Valley Project

PG&E files Surrender Application for Potter Valley Project

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has officially filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to decommission its hydroelectric plant in Mendocino County, officials announced this week. In a press release, PG&E officials reported that the company “filed its Final Surrender Application and Final Non-Project Use of Project Lands Application for the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project with FERC” on Friday, July 25, and that…

PG&E submits plan to tear down Potter Valley Project - MendoFever – Mendocino County News

Scott Dam, one of two dams that make up the Potter Valley Project [Photo from PG&E] For over a century, the Potter Valley Project has been funneling water from the wild Eel River to the Russian River Valley’s thirsty vineyards, towns and farms. But that engineered connection, sustained by a pair of aging PG&E dams in the hills of Mendocino and Lake counties, may soon become history. On July 24, PG&E formally submitted its Surrender Application a…