WSP10999

• File Number: 8221.110.J
• Description: Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Date: 5/14/1982
• Title: The Juniper-Cross Mountain Project: A Preliminary Technical Review of Needs and Alternatives
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Another coal option available to Colorado-ute is to partici-

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pate in another Colorado utility's coal project east of the

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Continental Divide. Colorado-Ute's projected 1994 loads east of

the Divide (adjusted per Table 1) are 612 Mw, but it does not own

any generation resources there. Colorado-Ute has stated that it

is currently discussing a joint coal project with an eastern
Colorado utility.~ Colorado-Ute's demand forecast already

includes the growth-inducing impacts of a new coal plant "near

Las Animas, Colorado in the mid- to late 1980s.,,37/ Such a

project would be, according to colorado-Ute, in addition to the

Southwest Project, since it would serve loads east of the Divide,

and Southwest would serve loads in southwestern Colorado.

Altogether, then, the coal capacity available as an alternative

to Juniper-Cross Mountain is at least 400 Mw from Southwest 1, per-

haps another 400 Mw from Southwest 2, and an unknown further amount

from an eastern Colorado coal plant.

C. Choosing Among Alternatives.

Table 5 summarizes the conclusions of the alternatives

analysis given above, showing the level and timing of the options

available to Colordo-Ute. Comparing the bottom lines of Tables 1
and 5 shows that colorado-Ute has ample resources available to

meet its capacity needs without Juniper-Cross Mountain. This con-

elusion holds even though the Southwest coal project is assumed

unavailable until 1993 (delayed by six years). No hydro is

counted until 1994 (except the Tacoma uprate, Tri-County, and Blue

Mesa outlet works), and unquantified cogeneration, coal, and WAPA

purchases are not included at all.

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