Editing Lower Colorado River Authority (section)

===Hydroelectric===
[[Image:mansfield dam.gif|thumb|262px|[[Mansfield Dam]], the dam completed in 1941 that forms [[Lake Travis]] (the beginning of [[Lake Austin]] and an early low-water crossing is seen below the dam)]]

LCRA operates six [[hydroelectric]] [[dam]]s along the Colorado River in Central Texas that provide a source of renewable energy and form six lakes collectively known as the [[Texas Highland Lakes]]:

*[[Buchanan Dam]] (54.9 MW) - forms [[Lake Buchanan (Texas)|Lake Buchanan]]
*[[Inks Dam]] (13.8 MW) - forms [[Inks Lake]]
*[[Wirtz Dam]] (60 MW) - forms [[Lake LBJ]], which also serves as a cooling pond for the Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant
*[[Max Starcke Dam]] (41.4 MW) - forms [[Lake Marble Falls]]
*[[Mansfield Dam]] (108 MW) - forms [[Lake Travis]]
*[[Tom Miller Dam]] (17 MW) - forms [[Lake Austin]]

In keeping with its state-approved Water Management Plan, LCRA generates electricity from the dams only as it releases water for other reasons, or when ordered to do so by the [[Electric Reliability Council of Texas]] (ERCOT).