Eagle Creek Renewable Energy65 Madison Avenue, Suite 500 , Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy was founded in 2010 to acquire, enhance, and operate small hydroelectric power facilities. Eagle Creek currently owns and operates sixty-four hydroelectric facilities representing 225 megawatts of capacity across the United States. Eagle Creek also has ownership interests equivalent to approximately 10 megawatts in thirteen other hydroelectric facilities and two solar facilities in New England.  Eagle Creek is a privately owned entity and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation.

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy is an owner, operator, and developer of hydroelectric power projects. 

 Eagle Creek Renewable Energy owns and operates 64 hydroelectric facilities in the United States. The facilities produce enough electricity to power approximately 115,000 homes, while avoiding approximately 675,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, providing recreational opportunities, and protecting historical resources and the environment.

Our Mission

Eagle Creeks mission is to create value for investors, employees, host communities and all stakeholders through profitable and consistent growth in the development, acquisition and safe, reliable operation of a portfolio of small hydroelectric generating facilities.

Values

Eagle Creek personnel work cooperatively with resource agencies and others to provide safe and environmentally sound projects for the benefit of the public. Eagle Creek has created programs and procedures related to dam safety and environmental excellence that are wholeheartedly followed by the Eagle Creek staff. Eagle Creek works continually with dam safety experts from the private sector and from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to verify and ensure the effectiveness of the dam safety program for its hydroelectric projects.

Eagle Creek Facilities

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy owns and operates 64 hydroelectric facilities in the United States. The facilities total approximately 225,000 kilowatts of capacity and produce approximately 980 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity each year, enough to power approximately 115,000 homes. In addition, we are constructing a new unit at Swinging Bridge that will produce 1,100 kilowatts and 5 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity beginning in 2019.  Eagle Creek Renewable Energy owns and operates facilities in thirteen states: California, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Virginia. Eagle Creek Renewable Energy also has offices in Morristown, NJ (corporate headquarters), Neshkoro, WI, and Palmer, MA.

About Hydro

The provision of clean, renewable power to the public is a prime goal in modern energy policy and public conscience. Hydropower is one of the technologies that meets this goal, using only water as its fuel to power the turbines that create electricity.  Most hydropower developments have reservoirs that are used by a variety of stakeholders, including upland property owners, hikers, boaters, fishers, swimmers, sightseers, and wildlife. The terms of such uses are determined through a public process that results in the issuance of an operating license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The process allows for public input at many points throughout the license development and ensures that the interests of the public are balanced with those of power generators.

Relicensing

Of the 64 facilities Eagle Creek owns and operates, 63 are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Any hydroelectric power plant on navigable waters or public lands or affecting interstate commerce must be authorized by the FERC. The FERC authorizes projects either by issuing a license or, in the case of some smaller projects, by determining that the project is exempt from licensing but authorized to operate. The FERC has issued licenses to 47 of Eagle Creeks projects and has exempted 16 others from licensing.  FERC logoFERC project licenses are issued for a term of 30 to 50 years. At the end of each term, the licensee must apply for a new license term. The application process generally starts 5-6 years in advance of the expiration. Eagle Creek currently has ten projects in various stages of the relicensing process and one more for which it will be initiating a relicensing process in 2019.