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Show Utilities could come to blows over siting Somebody suggested a duel between the Intermountain Power Project and Utah Power and Light last month when the questall-import- ion of rights to the best plant sites in Utah came up before the Interagency Task Force on Power Plant Siting. Well, that may be a bit extreme, but theres going to be some people fighting mad over at UP&L if the task force. which is trying to find an acceptable place for IPP, picks one the Utah company has spent millions studying. We would object. said Frank Davis simply, UP&L vice president of engineering and construction. And the basis for that objection would be that UP&Ls customers, most of whom live in Utah, should have sufficient sites reserved for them. 1 along with the necessary water and air resources. To give an important site to a company which exports half its production to Los Angeles wouldnt be in the interest of Utah, Davis said. Entire regions impacted Reed Searle, executive secretary of the states Energy Conservation and Development Council and chief staff person for the task force, emphasized the problem. The air space in Utah in which power plants can be located is very limited, he explained, due to federal s coal-fuele- d The worlds finest i '3 g printingdisplay calculator that does all your figure work plus time calculations. ? The CASIO printingdisplay calculator is the perfect machine. Adds hours and minutes and then payroll converts them directly into decimal form for easy figuring. R-2-20 I J The visual display provides a handy accuracy check and virtually eliminates tape errors. Silent operation combined with steady dependability will make the CASIO your first choice. clean air legislation. Thus, the problem isn't limited to specific sites, but to entire regions because one plant would impact a large area. Davis said he didnt object to IPP locating in areas UP&L wasnt planning to use - they hadnt criticized the original Salt Wash" IPP site near Capitol Reef National Park which has come under fire from the Interior Department. Were all in the same he said, referring to boat, Californians needs 3TAH'S Write or call Suzy for a free color brochure or for power, but it would be shortsighted not to reserve resources for Utah first. UP&L has spent roughly million so far on an independent study of potential plant sites in the state. A dozen areas, each approximately 2,000 acres in size, were examined in light of potential environmental, sociological, and cost factors. The utility is estimating a need by about 2010 for plants with production capacity of 13,000 megawatts in addition to the 2,700 that should be available once current construction is completed in 1980. That capacity represents need for peak load periods, plus an extra 20 percent to cover emergencies. In short, that means a lot of construction. Davis says the utility has a legal responsibility not to be caught short in energy to mention the social greater implications of an energy shortage, which would be catastrophic. Energy availability is directly linked to the Gross National Product of the country, he said. $2 pro-duction-n- ot Totally speculative Of course, all that energy need not be generated in plants. Everyone expects eventual break coal-power- NUMBER ONE land-owne- AND MAINTENANCE large nuclear plant. According to Davis if such a plant is built, it would be in conjunction with another company and would be a breeder type reactor, something currently frowned upon by the federal government. The breeder, which in effect reuses on page 25 COMPAN demonstration. Ask the man who owns one how often he has to see the serviceman. 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Davis called coal the most economic and most viable option for the near future, although he felt the utility might go to nuclear power in the 1990s and perhaps geothermal too if resources prove sufficient. UP&L holds rights to substantial amounts of coal in Utah and is in the process of acquiring more. An example is the Kaiparowits field, which, if acquired by UP&L would provide 400 million tons. The company is also in the process of acquiring rights to uranium from ed |