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Show Featuring Ice Cream & Candies Open Daily 3:00 p.m. ........ Model EA353 : RCA i BTS ff The Prajecta 15 H SLVJB U Model EA353 i Sale$34995 : Anniversary Sale Prize Winners 1st Prize Mary Johnson 2nd Prize Richard McArthur 3rd Prize Norma Day I 4th Prize Betty Schumaker I 5th Prize Brent Bullock - I j UgEiiitff s I T.V. & Appliance Let's get a bit f more light p on the subject! ! r Hi, I'm Reddy Kilowatt, your friend at Utah ' , Power. This column Is devoted to question! 1 and suggestions we receive from our ' customers. You are warmly invited to participate. Questions and suggestions ' regarding electricity, your electric service 1 or energy conservation are welcome. i In Why not build more " hydroelectric plants? d QWhy doesn't Utah Power & Light build more dams and use mor. of the cleaner and cheaper hydroelectric hydro-electric generation instead of building more coal-fired generating plants? A The management of the com- pany would be delighted if they couid find suitable locations for additional addi-tional hydro-electric installations. At the present time almost all feasible hydro-electric sites in our country have been utilized; most of the remaining attractive sites are in national parks and scenic areas and not available for dam construction. It should be noted that an economically acceptable site for a hydro-electric plant requires a year-round large supply of running water; small streams do not have large enough flows of water to provide acceptable sites for hydro-electric installations. The State of Utah's one large hydroelectric hydro-electric installation is at Flaming Gorge, and the power available from this facility is totally committed. There are no further firm plans to construct hydro-electric dams on other possible ' Utah sites, which are in national parks and scenic areas. Installed generating capacity in the State of Utah, including both steam and hydro, is not adequate to supply the energy requirements " of people in the state; for example, in 1975, 48 of the needed power that UP&L supplied its customers in Utah came from a steam-electric plant in Wyoming, and whenever available, from hydro-electric generation of other , , companies in the Northwest. Electric rates: increasing in Utah, decreasing elsewhere? Why are rates increasing 1- in Utah while others are decreasing? A Electric rates are increasing everywhere, and isolated, rare instances of rate decreases are special situations of very short duration. In the UP&L service area rates for residential service have increased about the same . as the cost of living index for food and services since 1967. I Why are power rates j lower in the Northwest? i i . i i QWhy, in power-rich Utah, where 9 m there is an abundance of cheap s coal and water power, are rates higher than cities in the Northwest? A First, there is not an abundance of water power in Utah. The rates of power companies in the Northwest are lower than most other western util- ities because of the fact that they have been, up to now, predominately hydro-generation utilities where the cost for fuel (falling water) is zero. When " sites were available for construction of additional dams to generate power " using falling water, this was the most desirable and inexpensive way to generate electricity. Second, since hydro-electric sites are no longer available, utilities in the , Northwest are now turning to coal-fired I generation and nuclear plants, and ! it is inevitable that this will cause their customers' bills to increase, probably more rapidly than those of customers in Utah. Address your questions or suggestions to Reddy Kilowatt, P. O. Box 899, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. Due to space limitations, all questions and suggestions cannot be printed in this column, but each will be answered. : M) & light ca |