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Show Customers Save Under New "Half Price Plan" Nearly 40,000 customers, most of them residential and farm users, are now saving money on their electric service bills under the new "half-price "half-price plan" according to the quarterly quar-terly report made to the State Public Pub-lic Service Commission by the Utah Power & Light Co. The new rate plan, which became effective October 1, provides that all current used each month 'in excess of that used during the same month of the base period, is received at half price until the objective rate is reached. It is estimated by company officials offi-cials that beneficiaries of this plan saved $60,000 during the months of December, January and February. No report was issued for October and November the first two months of operation of the new plan. The saving under this plan does not take into account customers who received additional reductions by reason rea-son of a change in domestic lighting light-ing schedules which provides all consumption con-sumption over 76 kwh will be 4c a kwb- Officials explained electric consumers con-sumers are pleased with the reduction reduc-tion and will continue to be so, as increased use brings them the lowest low-est rates in the history of the inter-mountain inter-mountain territory. They said when the power company com-pany came into existence in 1912 average domestic rates ranged from 10 to 12 cents per kwh in the territory, terri-tory, whereas the average price paid for home service in its various forms on the system today is less than 5 cents. In connection with the report officials of-ficials revealed that 26 percent or 24,107 customers of the power company com-pany and subsidiaries were cooking' electrically at the end of 1935, an increase of 1195 over the corresponding correspond-ing period in 1934. Officials stated the company's domestic do-mestic customers in 1935 were using more electricity than in 1934, the average being 755 kilowatt hours annually an-nually compared with an average of 715 kwh- in 1934. In 1935 the Utah Power & Light Company and subsidiaries was charged $1,656,000 in taxes and on December 31, 1935 had 1620 men on its regular payroll and an additional addition-al 623 temperary employes, it was stated. ' It was' explained by officials that the construction budget, which was nearly a half million dollars in 1935, will be considerably enlarged in 1936 by the building of the new $1,-600,000 $1,-600,000 steam power generating station sta-tion at the mouth of Provo canyon. This work will require approximately approximate-ly 260 men. rt |