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Show Emery Power Plant Plans Still Alive, UP&L Says Utah Power & Light Co. said this week that its application to build a coal fired power station in southwest Wyoming does not preclude the building of a new generating station sta-tion in Emery County, Utah. The utility said 'it must build plants at both sites operable in the late seventies. Each plant ultimately ul-timately could be comprised com-prised of two units of 430,000 kilowatts per unit. un-it. Utah Pow er & Light Co. said the construction of the generating units at both sites is contingent on: --approval of the plant and related transmission lines bv the state governments gov-ernments and environmental environ-mental and other federal agencies; --whether or not current cur-rent load growth projections projec-tions are modified by current cur-rent conservation practices. prac-tices. The utility also said its generation construction construc-tion plans would be subject sub-ject to its ability to get a compensatory rate structure. The Company said the new units would burn low sulphur coal from the respective re-spective areas and would be equipped to meet pollution pol-lution control standards. Last month, the Company's Com-pany's directors authorized author-ized the purchase of two turbine generators for units to be in operation by 1978 and 1979. At that time, sites had not been chosen for the units, but they would be located where there is ample coal and water the utility said. The southwestern Wyoming Wyo-ming site is near the firm's Naughton steam electric plant, just southwest south-west of Kemmerer. The Emery County site is on the alkali flats not too distant from the firm's Huntington Plant now under un-der construction. |