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Show Salt Lake is Headquarters For Power Planning Group Salt Lake City today was recommended for the headquarters head-quarters for coordinating the expansion plans of 40 large utility systems which supply some 35 million people in 13 western states and Canada. The announcement was made jointly by William R Gould. Los Angeles, chairman of the Western Systems Coordinating Co-ordinating Council and E. Allan Hunter, president nf Utah Power and Light Co. The announcement said official of-ficial selection of Salt Lake Ci'.y awaits approval of a contract con-tract bv the University of Utah. WSCC's recommendation of Salt Lake City was based on the availability of large computer com-puter faciiitise capable of the economic process of sophisti-ca'cd sophisti-ca'cd computer programs, thus -enhancing reliability of electric systems in the West. Moreover. Mr. Hunter said the U of U has plans to expand ex-pand its computer facilities that will make it one of the largest computer centers in the West. The coordinating of the eletrical systems of the western west-ern United States requires a very sophisticated program for computer analysis. Mr. Hunter explained. If the University Uni-versity approves the contract with WSCC. a technical staff consisting of a manager, five engineers and three assistants assist-ants will be headquartered on the U of U campus in Salt Lake City. The staff will function under un-der the aeeis of the Western Systems Coordinating Council Coun-cil an organization made up of 40 electric systems and 13 affiliated members, representing rep-resenting investor - owned, publicly - owned and consumer consum-er - owned utilities and whose purpose is the achievement of the utmost reliability in power supply in the 13 western west-ern states and western Canada. Can-ada. The technical staff win help to achieve WSCC's main goal of assuring a reliable and adequate power supply lor the entire western United Slates and Canada, Mr. Ilunl-ei- Said. Other factor.", that contributed contri-buted to the recommendation of Sail Lake City were il-i central location to the western west-ern slates' utilities and because be-cause the University of Utah campus nud its engineering school offers an atmosphere conducive to such utilty studies. stu-dies. All members or WSCC are interconnected by high voltage volt-age transmission lines permitting per-mitting the interchange of power by utilities in the western west-ern part of the United States provided for an adequate power supply in the event of emergencies, ind also provides pro-vides for operating economies." econo-mies." Kacli utility or power pool does ils own planning and operating, op-erating, then provides the WSCC with information need for coordinating studies. Studies Stu-dies are made on sophisticated sophisticat-ed computers to test the performance per-formance of the interconnected interconnect-ed systems extending ton years into the future. WSCC also compiles load and power pow-er resources projections and makes reliability studies for generation requirements. "The technical staff will conduct innumerable studies which will allow WSCC to effectively ef-fectively perform its roll of coordinating the plans of its individual member systems," according to WSCC. Manager of the staff to be loaded on the U of U campus, camp-us, if the contract is approved, approv-ed, is Dennis E. Eyre, former form-er electrical engineer with the City of Los Angeles De- partmcnt of Water and Pow-'cr. |