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Show THE NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, 9 OCTOBER 12, 1977 IPP made simple Learn not only your ABCs but ICPAs as well by Milt Policzer Enterprise Staff Writer could pass for a used car lot office. The only distinctive feature it has is a sign adorned with lightning bolts out front. But dollar deals are made here. The place doesn't look like much. Sitting on a frontage road in Sandy, it multi-millio- n UP&L may sell interest in future power plants Hey, buddy, wanna buy a power plant? Well, it ain't cheap but Inter-mountai- in cities and REAS working Electrification Associa(Rural in tions) any plants built in the state." he asserted. That philosophy will w'ork to the benefit, in all probability, of the city of Bountiful which asked the PSC two years ago to allow' it to acquire a five percent interest in UP&Ls 800,000 kilowatt Emery County plant, scheduled for partial comple- vice-preside- nt Enterprise last week the company may be willing to allow its customers, like municipalities for example, to acquire and finance portions of power plants to be built by the utility. tion in 1979. Berry Hutchings, Bount- ifuls director of future power resources, said the request w as made after a study of the economic feasibility of paying for that percentage of the plant because the city needed more power by 1980. The city is now awaiting figures from the utility on how much the investment would cost, he The reason is that raising money for new construction has become much harder for UP&L in light of a recent Public Service Commission decision reducing the utilitys allowable rate of return on investment from 16 to 14.5 percent. "Its going to be easier to raise less money," said. Getaway for lunch... Welcome back to the Restaurant! n Project (IPP). ICPA. IPP. and the Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) provide or will provide much of the electrical energy needed by Utahns, not to mention energy for a number of surrounding states. w ith you just might be able to get one or a chunk of one from Utah Power & Light Co. if you can come up with the cash. James C. Taylor, UP&Ls in charge of division operations, told the and Glen Canyon dams. ICPA still does some lobbying and provides engineering help to members who dont have their own, but its most important function now is as purchasing agent of power for its members (most of them in Utah), in five states. That power was bought exclusively from the federal government until April, 1976. The ICPA started getting soon-to-be-import- Taylor said. "We're interested The building is the headquarters of the Consumer Power Association (ICPA) and also the office of the president of the Intermountain Power Back in 1970, ICPA began looking for additional It sources of power. determined its own coal-fuele- d plant wras alternative. The problem was that its own members couldn't afford the cost of doing necessary preliminary studies. So ICPA went looking for someone else who could. Six some power from UP&L too. continued on page Other initials You've probably already heard about the IPP plans to build a 3,000 megawatt coal-fuele- generating plant Thats been controversial enough to spark d in southern Utah. the formation government investigate of a special task force to its siting. But all those other initials figure prominently in the same project and in other electric projects in the state. Heres how: The Intermountain Con- Master Lock now offers you a powerful new way to protect your home against burglary and fire. 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