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Show Utah-Arizona company interconnection lines will bo in ervice well in advance ad-vance of the availability of power from Glen Canyon generator, the bureau waa informed. The announcement wai made in letters to Director E. O. Larsen of the Bureau of Reclamation' Region 4 Thursday at a meeting here with representative of the major private pri-vate electric utilitie of Utah, Arizona, Ari-zona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Cooperative effort toward tow-ard the economic marketing of power from Glen Canyon and Flaming Flam-ing Gorge generating plants were discussed. E. M. Naughton, president of Utah Power & Light Co. and W. T. Lucking, president of Arizona Public Pub-lic Service Co. aid that "th:a project pro-ject fulfill commitment by the two utilitie in 1955 to Congressional committee that they would utilize their existing facilities and also construct con-struct new transmission facilities as necessary, to market power from Colorado River generating plant." Mr. Naughton said that UP&L will construct 300 miles of 230,000 volt line from Salt Lake City to a point on the Arizona border near Glen Canyon. Cost of the line, including in-cluding substation facilities, will be $15.5 million. This include the cost of a UP&L line now under construction con-struction between Nephi and Sigurd for service next year. ... IDAHO ft ' I I UTAH fjM "" i 'Vv ! WYOMING ) tvks i - -- I WhW t Salt Lake City -w. k I w?" ' v C y ' s- Pt ' m Provo A - '- v ' Nephi ir i , $ I T JV Nephi-Sigurd ) Z I '-' section j j J v fonder construction fryylj I J "VN. i ! J Sigurd '-TT- I , . f J J ! I . I V ' ; J IS . Panguitch ys " M 12 Cedar City . J " 0 I i T Sfl'J Juan Rii er I i ..r2l j ARIZONA (Cw Can; on Dam J g 1 Grand '-Tz i Canyon I - (i i I Flagstaff Map shows joint $23 million high voltage line project that will connect Utah Power & Light Co. and Arizona Public Service Co. system. Line will make Available Glen Canyon power to people of Utah and Arizona and alio transmit power to preference customer. Because peak power demand on two systems occur at different time of year, integration will offer economic savings in operation. Mr. Naughton also said that his board further authorized that "as additional units are installed at Glen Canyon and to the extent that power allocations to the Utah area require additional facilities, the Utah Power & Light Co. will build such facilities under such terms as may then be appropriate." Mr. Lucking said Arizona Public Service will build 155 miles of 230,000 volt line from the Arizona border to Flagstaff, Arizona. The line and necessary substation facilities facil-ities will cost $7.4 million. The two utility men said that the difference in climate between Utah and Arizona will provide great advantages ad-vantages through integration of the two system. They pointed out that the maximum load on the Utah system occur in the winter while that on the Arizona system occurs in the summer. They explained that utilization of this diversity through integration will result in economic advantages to the customer of both companie. "The primary purpose of the Colorado River Storage project rs to enable upper basin states to conserve con-serve and put to beneficial use their allocation of Colorado river water," Mr. Naughtcn declared. Mr. Naughton pointed out that the 1955 legislation authorizing the project requires that revenues from project electric power be used to pay back to the Treasury with interest in-terest the cost of the electric generating gen-erating facilities and in addition contribute funds to develop water projects such a Central Utah. He observed that a sizable portion por-tion of the energy generated by UP&L is generated by steam. Due to the wide yearly fluctuation in hydro-electric generation, his company' com-pany' steam generating plants can be concerted with the Bureau's hydro sources to the financial benefit bene-fit of the entire project. r . Electric systems of Utah Power & Light Co. and Arizona Public Service Co. will be physically interconnected inter-connected at a point on the Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona border near Glen Canyon dam, the two utilities informed the Bureau of Reclamation here Thursday. Thurs-day. Boards of director of both utili- I ties have approved the $23 million project which, in addition to integrating inte-grating the two electric systems, will provide adequate capacity to carry large blocks of Glen Canyon power to the people of Utah and Arizona and also to transmit or wheel power to preference customers. custom-ers. The high capacity transmission |