Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-14 | Page 16 | Expert Estimates Cost of Producing Electric Energy

EXPERT ESTIMATES I COST OF PRODUCING ELECTRIC ENERGY I TJ Los S Angeles r Engineer Testifies I fies lies in Power po Increase Hearing Hearin I Unit cost and annual cost 0 l of ot a steam te m I plant generating electric energy and producing an average a annual output of ot kilowatt hours were detailed detailed detailed de de- tailed to tho the public utilities commission commission commis commis- I II I sion Inn yesterday by 15 g. J J. J Franklin consulting consulting con con- engineer Ineer of or Los Angeles who i testified for tor the Utah Copper company I In Its Us protest of or tho the application of oC tho the I Utah Power Light company for lor au authority authority au- au to increase Its rates for power Mr lr fr Franklin stated that tho the plant I I which ho he had estimated would cost per annum 90 and the unit cost would bo be E 6 mills per kilowatt hour Mr Ir Franklin also gave gao a summary I of or the estimated cost of or tho the generation generation generation genera genera- tion of or electric power with a steam I plant rated at kilowatts at nt Magna Mag Mag- na un on an avera average o load of oC horse power to cost o 93 per l kilowatt In Installed Installed installed in- in stalled would he be He estimated estimated esti esti- mated tho the cost of electric energy at atthe atthe the tho Magna plant If It produced In such a plant at practically 5 mills per kilowatt kilowatt kilo kilo- watt hour Cost of ot Power at nt Marina I While not brought out yesterday It I j Ihas has been he en shown that tho contract of oC I Ithe the Utah Copper company compan with tho Utah Power Light company compan was as j jt 12 t 22 mills per kilowatt hour in 1918 1913 and 4 48 8 mills per kilowatt hour in 1919 He lie said tho the cost of ot power b by tho the Utah lake lak steam plant delivered at the same sam point Magna fa na would he be 10 mills per kilowatt hour and the plant would I cost more than twice as much as the estimate of oC the plant at Magna na while j i the tho cost of ot power by water at tho the I i isamo same samo point would bo be 63 mills per por kilowatt hour 4 teat He-at aln of Utah ConI Ralph 1 E. E I H. H Pomeroy mining engineer engineer engi engi- neer for Cor the tho Nevada Consolidated Cooper Couper Couper Cou- Cou per company and superintendent of or the tho smelting smelling department at McGIll Nov testified as ns to quantity and heat hoat value alue of or coal from Crom Utah mines used by his company compan Ills testimony showed aver aver- aJ ago heat value alue of or British thermal ther thermal mal heat units in all coal used during I tho the last two years ears Harry Harr Baum Daum of or James Stewart Steart Co I contractors Salt Lake presented an exhibit cost of construction of oC a no I steam plant plant- His ills examination was di direct direct di- di and his hIi examination cross was de deferred do- do forred d until next week The Tho hearing 1 will bo ho e resumed this morning