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Show Utility President Explains Integration At Five - County Organization Meeting E. M. NAUGHTON Plans for a $93 million electrical power distribution system for the five states in the Upper Colorado River Basin, are ncaring completion and work has begun, E. M. NuUfchton, president of Utah Power and Light Co., told members of the Five County Organization in their meeting meet-ing in Cedar City Monday evening. The utility speaker presented a detailed plan, illustrated with charts and maps for the marketing of investor-owned utilities of the five states of pow- Ier from Colorado River projects. The proposed construction of a power line from Salt Lake City to Flagstaff, Ariz., will intercon-Inect intercon-Inect two systems that have al-' al-' ready undergone extensive integration inte-gration and will bring together a 13,000,000 kilowatt capacity system in the north sector of the basin and a 14,000,000 kilowatt capacity system In the southern division. Serves Five Companies This, Vr. Naughton explained, will be du important phase of the integration program of five major ma-jor companies in the Utah. Wyo ming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, areas in that peak load periods in the southern division tend to come during the summer months with air conditioning and irrigation pumping, while the peak load period of the northern systems fall during the winter months with heating and lighting. light-ing. These will allow the systems sys-tems to help or.e another and will in actuality reduce the amount of research of each of the companies from 50 to 100 re. serve to as low as 10, with these savings to be reflected to the customers. First step, he said. Is the $23 million 230,000 kllodwatt transmission trans-mission line between Salt Lake City and Flagstaff, Ariz., a distance dis-tance of 455 miles. This line will pass close to Glen Canyon Dam and will be available to take Glen Canyon power to the people peo-ple of both states. The line will be capable of taking 350,000 kilowatts kilo-watts from Glen Canyon, and distribute that power 175,000 toward to-ward Salt Lake City and 175,000 into the Arizona Public Service Preference Customers Co., at Flagstaff, Ariz. The utilities of the five states which include the Utah Power and Light Company, Public Service Ser-vice Company of Arizona, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Public Service Cctt.z"" oi Cclc rado and the Wyoming Division, Pacific Power and Light have offered to "wheel" government power to preference customers of their states. Preference customers, cus-tomers, he indicated, include municipalities mu-nicipalities with distribution systems, sys-tems, REA groups and cooperative coopera-tive electric companies. The Utilities' overall plan would integrate federal power generating facilities as required by law. Flaming Gorge would be integrated, he said, through construction con-struction by UP&L of a line from Carbon to Vernal. Mr. Naughton explained the various stages of the proposal in some detail. Potential preference prefer-ence customers of the five states, he said, could use only 15 of Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Power by 1965 and only C5 of 'that power by 1970 so it is obvious ob-vious that other means of marketing mar-keting the remaining power must be provided. Water, Not Power The utility president asserted that the Colorado River project Is essentially one of water development, develop-ment, not power production. Sale of power, he said, should generate sufficient dollars to pay for cost of power facilities, Interest Inter-est on those facilities for 50 years, and, In addition, provide revenues for true water projects such as Central Utn. First phase of the $23 million power connection line from Salt Lake City to Flagstaff Is already alrea-dy under construction and will be completed by May of I960, he said. This Is a line from NephI to Sigurd and although the line has been built to 230,000 volt capacity, capaci-ty, it Is antlcated that the line will, when put to use carry only 138.000 volts. This is Important to southern Utah and specifically the Iron County area, In that without this line Into the Tellurlde Company, a subsidiary of UP&L, an agreement agree-ment with California-Pacific Utilities Util-ities Company, southern division In Cedar City, could not be met to supply supplemental power to this area. Cost Com pari ion Mr. Naughton also pointed out (Continued Page S. Column 2) FIVE COUNTY MEETING (Continued from Front Page) with charts, that residential customers cus-tomers of the Garkane Power Association pay considerably more for the same amount of electricity el-ectricity than do customers of the Telluride Power Company. - He said he brought the matter up only to set the record straight, following some "irresponsible Inferences In-ferences which have been made to the contrary." This is true, he declared, despite de-spite the fact that the Carkane Cooperative pays no federal or state Income taxes and borrows money from the Federal Government Govern-ment at a low 2 rate of interest. inter-est. He asserted that Garkane customers cus-tomers pay $9.40 for 200 kilowatt hours of electricity against the $6.75 which Telluride customers pay for that same amount. As an aside, he pointed out that Garkane rates for the same amounts of electricity are some 20 to 25 higher that the of the California-Pacific Utilities Com-pany Com-pany which serves the Cedar City area. Developments of the Telluride system. Include a $1,250,000 line to the Iron County line to meet with the California-Pacific line for supplying additional power Into that system. |