Glenn Ferris Dam and 6mw Powerhouses (Hawks Nest Hydro) on Kanawha River at Kanawha Falls, WV

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Street View

The powerhouse uses the hydraulic head created by the Kanawha Falls.

Tyler Van Hoven, Aug 2016

The following indicates that the building on the left in the above  view is the East Powerhouse whereas the building on the right is the West Powerhouse.

ferc
East Powerhouse:  2 x 1.947mw
West Powerhouse:  6: x 0.377mw
Total: 6.156mw
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Bob Featherstone posted
This is a hydroelectric station on the Kanawha River in West Virginia. When it was originally built at the end of the 19th century, the electric furnaces for the adjacent ferro-alloy plant were close-coupled to the generators with large copper bus work. The furnaces which are long gone, were right on the river over the hydro station water passages!

Several sources named this facility the Hawks Nest Hydro. But since Hawks Nest Dam is just a little upstream from here, I used the name from this source, Glen Ferris Dam, to avoid confusion with Hawks Nest Dam.

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