Hydroelectric Dams
2,099 dams in the US serve this purpose.
| Dam Name | Hazard | Height | Built | Type | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stillwater Penobscot | Low Hazard | 25 ft | 1902 | Concrete | Maine |
| Stillwater - North Dam Herkimer | High Hazard | 55 ft | 1924 | Earth | New York |
| St Louis Gratiot | Significant Hazard | 21 ft | 1901 | Gravity | Michigan |
| Stockport Mill Country Inn Water Power Project Morgan | High Hazard | 20 ft | 1891 | Concrete | Ohio |
| Stockton Dam Cedar | High Hazard | — | 1969 | Rockfill | Missouri |
| Stone Dam Penobscot | High Hazard | 27 ft | 1900 | Concrete | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 1 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 2 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 3 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 4 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 9 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 5 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 9 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 6 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 9 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 7 Penobscot | Low Hazard | 9 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stone Dam - Dike 8 Penobscot | High Hazard | 9 ft | 1900 | Earth | Maine |
| Stony Brook Oxford | Low Hazard | 12 ft | 1976 | Concrete | Maine |
| Stoughton Dane | Low Hazard | 11 ft | 1916 | Earth | Wisconsin |
| Strawberry Tuolumne | High Hazard | 143 ft | 1916 | Rockfill | California |
| St. Regis Falls Franklin | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1947 | Timber Crib | New York |
| Strontia Springs Douglas | High Hazard | 292 ft | 1982 | Concrete | Colorado |
| Stroudwater River Cumberland | Low Hazard | 16 ft | 1849 | Concrete | Maine |
| St. Stephen Powerhouse Dam Berkeley | High Hazard | 128 ft | 1985 | Concrete | South Carolina |
| Stump Lake Dam Douglas | Low Hazard | 17 ft | 1953 | Earth | Oregon |
| Stump Pond Penobscot | Low Hazard | 12 ft | 1936 | Concrete | Maine |
| Sturgeon Falls Marinette | Low Hazard | 38 ft | 1906 | Gravity | Wisconsin |
| Sturgeon Falls Dickinson | Significant Hazard | 37 ft | 1905 | Concrete | Michigan |
| Sturgeon Pool Dam Ulster | High Hazard | 109 ft | 1922 | Concrete | New York |
| Sturgeon River Dam Dickinson | Unknown | 80 ft | 1924 | Gravity | Michigan |
| Sturgis St. Joseph | High Hazard | 25 ft | 1913 | Buttress | Michigan |
| Stuyvesant Falls Columbia | Significant Hazard | 13 ft | 1900 | Masonry | New York |
| Sucker Brook Diversion Addison | Significant Hazard | 38 ft | 1917 | Earth | Vermont |
| Sucker Creek Dam Ontonagon | Low Hazard | 15 ft | — | Earth | Michigan |
| Sugar Camp Oneida | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1908 | Gravity | Wisconsin |
| Sugar Hill Addison | High Hazard | 60 ft | 1931 | Earth | Vermont |
| Sugar Island St. Lawrence | Low Hazard | 35 ft | 1925 | Gravity | New York |
| Sugar River I Sullivan | Significant Hazard | 18 ft | 1928 | Concrete | New Hampshire |
| Sugar River Ii Sullivan | Significant Hazard | 10 ft | 2009 | Concrete | New Hampshire |
| Sullivan Lake Pend Oreille | High Hazard | 25 ft | 1923 | Gravity | Washington |
| Summersville Dam Nicholas | High Hazard | — | 1965 | Rockfill | West Virginia |
| Sunapee Sullivan | Significant Hazard | 15 ft | 1856 | Masonry | New Hampshire |
| Superior Dam Washtenaw | High Hazard | 25 ft | 1919 | Earth | Michigan |
| Superior Falls Iron | Low Hazard | 28 ft | 1917 | Gravity | Michigan |
| Superior Falls Iron | Low Hazard | 28 ft | 1935 | Gravity | Wisconsin |
| Sutherland Lincoln | High Hazard | 30 ft | 1935 | Gravity | Nebraska |
| Swan Falls Ada | High Hazard | 88 ft | 1901 | Concrete | Idaho |
| Swan Lake Ketchikan Gateway Borough | High Hazard | 174 ft | 1984 | Arch | Alaska |
| Swans Falls Oxford | Low Hazard | 10 ft | 1923 | Concrete | Maine |
| Swanton Franklin | Low Hazard | 19 ft | 1920 | Concrete | Vermont |
| Sweetwater Sullivan | Significant Hazard | 33 ft | 1922 | Concrete | New Hampshire |
| Swift No. 1 Skamania | High Hazard | 412 ft | 1958 | Earth | Washington |
| Swift No 2 Hydroelectric Project Cowlitz | Low Hazard | 106 ft | 1959 | Earth | Washington |