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Show U P & L COMPLETES PLANT AT BEAVER Utah Power & Light crews this week completed steel erection and finished construction construc-tion of a control building at the utility's $200,000 Cameron substation sub-station just east of Beaver. The project is part of the almost $1.5 million the utility is spending for new and improved im-proved facilities this year in its Telluride Division in west-central west-central and southern Utah, All told, according to division divi-sion manager Clair J. Hadley; Utah Power will spend $17.5 million in new construction throughout its service area during dur-ing 1966 to provide more power and refined service to electricity electric-ity users. Major projects include: Start of construction of a 220,000 kilowatt, $22 million second generating unit at its Naughton plant near Kemmer-er, Kemmer-er, Wyo. The new unit will provide enough electricity to supply the needs of a city of 2Vi million people and more than double present capacity of the plant. Installatien of a highly complex com-plex electronic brain at the UP&L system nerve center in Salt Lake City and associated electronic equipment at key transmission junction points, like Sigurd substation, to provide pro-vide more efficiencies in power generation and exchange. The equipment fed by elec-t) elec-t) onic signals and programmed data collected from throughout the UP&L can, for example make hundreds of computations a second to deliver instructions instruc-tions to various generating sources that at that particular moment provide the most economical eco-nomical power available. Such innovations, the industry indus-try points up, make possible the continued downward trend of the average cost of electricity electric-ity to users despite the rising costs of labor and commodities. commodi-ties. Mr. Hadley said other major ma-jor UP&L construction projects in the Telluride Division Include: In-clude: Construction of a new Service Serv-ice Center at Richfield; Rehabilitation of a 77-pole section of the Beaver-Milford 46,000-volt line; Rebuild 16 miles of the Fillmore-Delta 46,000-volt transmission trans-mission line to protect transmission trans-mission facilities from air contamination con-tamination which frequently coats insulators causing outages under certain weather conditions; condi-tions; Conversion of distribution systems for improved service in the Wales-Fountain Green-Aurora Green-Aurora area: Continued rehabilitation of distribution systems improvements improve-ments at Delta; Elsewhere in Tellurjde Division Divi-sion switches, circuit breakers .and other refinement will be installed to improve service. Since its acquisition of the Telluride system in 1958, UP&L has Invested in a multi-million dollar modernization program thruout the ara. |