WSP10999 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

( ( 7 Second, Colorado-Ute's forecast is corrected for improperly e ~ ~ ... included industrial loads. Over 320 Mw of the forecasted load growth in the 1980s is due to just nine specific industrial C projects. Table 2 lists these nine projects, and 13 smaller ones, and Colorado-Ute's forecasted demand due to these projects. Numbers 1-5 and 7-10 in Table 2 show a 320.3 Mw increase in 1979- 89. This is 30 percent of Colorado-Ute's total 1979-89 demand growth. 15/ The Exxon oil shale project at Willow Creek is not currently being developed. It is not listed as an active project in the annual Oil and Gas Journal list. It has not applied for inclu- sion in the Colorado Joint Review Process. In light of cur- rently declining world oil prices, deferrals of other oil shale ~ , projects, and the exclusion of Colorado oil shale projects from Fuels Corporation (SFCl selections,16/ the current round of Synthetic Colorado-ute should expect this project to be delayed by at least two years. A two-year delay would reduce 1994 demand for Willow Creek from 180 Mw to 104 Mw. The C-b tract oil shale project, also known as Cathedral Bluffs, has been suspended. A plann~d application for a loan guarantee from the SFC has been withdrawn, and over 30 percent of the on-site staff has been laid off. Even before the current sus- pension, C-b was not planned to reach full output until 1991,17/ although Colorado-Ute shows demand reaching its maximum 100 Mw by 1989. At least a two-year delay in project development should be expected from the schedule given by Colorado-Ute. Such a delay will reduce demand from C-b in the 1982-90 period, but will not