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Show Wesft 1 IFyeOs ns IMo'D'oirQoD SyppDy (peiriaitfim Western Fuels Association, Inc., is a cooperative fuel supply corporation with membership spanning the western United States, scattered across the southeast, and extending to Puerto Rico. Its members are consumer-owne- d utilities or associaitons of such utilities: rural electric generation and transmission cooperatives, municipal electric mission Cooperatives Bonanza Power Project. Western Fuels-Illinois another subsidiary. utilities, and public power districts. It is a unique corporate entity. Western is a d wholly-ownesubsidiary of Western Fuels Association and was created for the purpose of constructing and operating the Deserado Mine and Deseret-WesterRailway as part of Deseret Generation and Trans Fuels-Uta- h n is Western Fuels supplies coal to various member electric generating stations. Some of the coal comes from the Associations own mines, but a much larger part is coal acquired through contracts with major coal producers in Wyoming. Del- - Power Sales Assure Project Projected sales of energy from the Bonanza Power Plant has progressed to the point that operation of the facility folloand testing is wing start-u- p assured. Negotiations recently completed firmed up a sale of 3.57 (10 MW) of power to Utah Municipal Power Association (UMPA). The organization also plans to purchase an additional 15 MW in to serve their six municipal members. Letters of intent have been received by Deseret from Utah Municipal Power Systems for 30 MW; Riverside, California, for 47 MW, and Anaheim, California, for 80 megawatts. These energy sales are for a five-yea-r period, after which Deserets members will utilize the plant output. 1990, Merrill Millett, Deseret General Manager, stated, At a time when there is considerable surplus power available on the market, we are doing very well in selling the surplus which will be produced at Bonanza." With member use and pending sales, it is anticipated that the plant will be fully loaded by 1988. iveries from New Mexico and Montana producers began in 1984. While many of Western Fuels 35 members do not receive coal from the Association, most joined because of plans to build generating stations and use the Association to arrange for future fuel supplies and transportation. At present, eleven generating stations use Association services. 1984 deliveries reached tons. Both the number of facilities and tonnage are growing. Western Fuels-Utaoperates the Deserado Mine near Rangely, Colorado. Western Fuels Illinois owns the Brushy Creek Mine near Galatia in southern Illinois. The Deserado Mine supplies Deseret Generation and Transmission Co- employs 90 people in a variety of surface and underground hourly and salaried positions. As the mine and Bonanza powerplant reach their full productive capacity, that number will rise to 300 or more. h Bonanza operatives Power Station. Brushy Creek supplies generation in Sikeston, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. Western Fuels coal supply contracts are with Western Energy of Montana and SF Coal Corporation in New Mexico. In the Powder River Basin, Western Fuels has contracts with Sunedco (Cordero Mine), Exxon Coal USA, Inc. (Caballo and Rawhide Mines), Shell Mining Co. (Buckskin Mine), Mobil Alternative Energy e (Caballo Rojo Mine), and (Jacobs Ranch Mine). Western Fuels transports coal using its own equipment over the Deseret-WesterRailway STANLEY Western K. BAZANT, President, Inc. Fuels-Uta- Kerr-McGe- n and the Escalante-Wester- n Railway in New Mexico. Elsewhere it owns a fleet of coal cars hauled by the following Class I railroads: Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Missouri Pacific (now part of Union Pacific System), Kansas City Southern, and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. The Association and its subsidiaries are governed by the board of directors. K. Bazant, General Stanley Manager of Plains Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative of Albuquerque, New Mexico, serves as Pre- FREDRICK D. PALMER, Manager, Western General Fuels-Uta- h, Inc. sident. Merrill J. Millett, Deserets General Manager, is Vice President. Fredrick D. Palmer Became General Manager on March 1, 1984. Association headquarters are in Washington, D.C. The Association has an engineering and exploration office in Lakewood, Colorado, and has operations offices in Gillette, Wyoming; Alliance, Nebraska; and Prewitt, New Mexico. It has a Community Development office in Rangely, plus offices at the Deserado and Brushy Creek Mines. Western Fuels-Utacurrently RAJA Manager-Deserad- Mine UPADHYAY, o Mine |
