Hydropower would be good in Chatham County in many ways. One, it’s cheap and affordable, along with the haw river and Jordan lake, it wouldn't be a problem trying to find a location for the hydropower plant. Second, a hydropower plant generator can produce about 76,000 kilowatts in a hour and 1,824,000 kilowatts in a full day. a average household in America uses about 1,000 kilowatts a month. One of those generators can supply around 50,000 households, in Chatham county there was a total of 25,845 in 2010. We could already supply all the households with energy with one generator. If we put a hydropower plant in Jordan lake, we can supply thousands of households for years with one generator. Putting a plant at Jordan lake won’t be that hard
