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Southeastern Power Administration

This program markets Federal hydroelectric power to public entities and repays the Federal investment in Southeastern's power generation system. It works with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage the operations of the Federal hydropower system to effectively market, generate, and deliver electricity.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Due to the extreme drought experienced during FY 2007, Southeastern utilized the Continuing Fund to purchase power in order to fulfill its contractual obligations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Southeastern has developed a plan to repay any purchase power and wheeling expenditures made through the Continuing Fund within one year.

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