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Show UP&L PRODUCTION HITS ALL TIME POWER PEAK . On December 19, Utah Power & Lighted. generated a new electrical peak from its steam power plants, reaching 2,261,000 kilowatts. kilo-watts. Every base load unit on the company's system was operating at or near capacity wnich made the new record possible. In the early part of 1979 the company had several units off the line for maintenance main-tenance or due to mechanical mechani-cal difficulties, and substantial substan-tial amounts of power were being imported from neighboring neigh-boring utility companies with the understanding that this power would be paid back In kind rather than purchased. This week, the units on the UP & L system have been functioning well enough during dur-ing the past week to not only meet winter peak loads for Utah Power, but also to return most of the electricity electri-city that was borrowed during dur-ing periods when the company's com-pany's power plants were out of service earlier this year. As a result, the company com-pany has also established a weekly generating record of 349,751,000 kilowatt -hours. |
