The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s 2013 report, Recommendations for Developing Agricultural Hydropower in Colorado, estimated that 175,000 acres of the state’s irrigated farmland is suitable for new, pressurized irrigation and installation of small hydropower plants with 30 MW of potential from these systems. The Colorado Energy Office’s 2016 report, Colorado PRV-Hydropower Assessment, found another 20-25 MW of small hydropower potential by replacing pressure reducing valves with turbines at existing municipal water systems across the state.