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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Table 7 shows those committed resources from Table I, and

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others from Table 6, which have, or will have, rapid load-following

capability, and the percentage of Colorado-Ute's peak demand

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(adjusted for forecast errors and conservation) which they repre-

sent.

Table 7 shows that Colorado-Ute committed load-following

resources alone will never drop below 25 percent of its peak demand

in 1982-94. CRWCD's assertion that Colorado-Ute needs 250 Mw of

"fast-response" capacity in 1985

represents 24 percent of

Colorado-Ute's unadjusted forecasted 1985 load (1049 Mw, per

Table I, line 9). If 24 percent is indeed an appropriate level

for fast-response resources, then Colorado-Ute does not need

Juniper-Cross Mountain no matter what it builds beyond its committed

resources.

VI. Juniper-Cross Mountain as an Energy Resource.

Juniper-Cross Mountain is proposed to produce 350 million

kwh (gigawatt hours, gwh) per year. This is equivalent to 40 Mw

operating around the clock, and represents only 3 percent of

Colorado-Ute's own 1994 energy requirements forecast.

Table 8

corresponds to Table 1 in the capacity' ~ecti6n, showing Colorado-

Ute's committed resources and its forecasted loads, adjusted for

actual 1980 sales and industrial deferrals and cancellations. It

shows no need for any new energy sources until 1990.

Table 9 corresponds to Table 6. It shows the energy available

from each of the preferred resources listed in Table 6. No energy

is shown for diversity exchanges, Blue Mesa, or the Tacoma uprate,

which are all expected to provide only peaking capacity.