Show telluride gardane power interconnection inter connection completed hatch diesel plant shuts down on august 16 the garkawe power association diesel electric plant dt at atch was shut down dovin arid d put on art an emergency bitsis basis and ad the cooperative begg began to td purchase chise power from telluride power company according to t lester spencer manager of gar kane power association r for the past three months gardane has been building a 1 44 0 DD volt line from Pan gultch to hatch and installing a step down substation at hatch to distribute the power over the gar kane lines to its members in garfield and kane counties the work was completed and engineers ol of the two companies successfully cess fully phased out the two systems and adjusted the trans dorme cormer voltages to the requirements of 01 the gardane system the main reasons for purchasing instead of generating power according to mr spencer were the excessive cost of diesel fuel pil oil which has fias almost tripled in orice rice since 1939 the high cost of maintain ance of the diesel plant the rapid growth of use of electric service by gardane members which necessitates additional gene generating capacity or be securing curing outside power to keep up with the needs and the fact that extensive studies by gardane engineers indicated that better service and overall economy could te be obtained by ar r from rather than by investing in further diesel generating equipment mr spencer that surveys are now being made for a volt line from the telluride system at sigurd to a point near koosharem Koo sharem which likely will be built late this fall or early in 1949 to connect into the gardane wayne county system ao so as to augment the power in that area and permit shutting down the diesel units at torrey there has been close cooperation between the two power companies mr spencer said and both outfits are determined to ic supply adequate electric service in this progressive southern area |