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<br />(:) <br />r ') <br />~.<4 <br />~ <br />co <br />OJ <br /> <br /> <br />In connection with its expressed willingness to provide a <br />market for Colorado-Big Thompson energy, the Company has <br />repeatedly committed itself through public statements and <br />various franchise provisions to the policy that, if such energy <br />is purchased. at less than the cost to the Company of supplying <br />equivalent electric energy from its own facilities, the result- <br />ing savings to the Company will be passed on to the ultimate <br />consumers. <br /> <br />THE PLAN PROPOSED BY THE COMPANY IS THE AMERICAN WAY OF BUSINESS CO- <br />OPERATING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNME:NT TO PROVIDE TEE MOsr ECONO:MIC MARKErING OF <br />POWER RATEiER THAN THE WASTEFUL SOCIALIZED MBn'HOD OF CONSTRUCTING DUPLICATING <br />TRl\NSMISSI()N FACILlTIFS TO COW'El'E WITH AN EXIsrING TAXPAYER'S TRANSMISSION sysrEM. <br /> <br />'This program of the Company is the practical and economical way to' <br />guarantee the most widespread use of Colorado-Big Thompson energy. It will reduce <br />the construction cost of the project and will insure a more rapid repayment of the <br />, <br />cost of the entire project. <br /> <br />---000000000--- <br /> <br />COMPANY'S ;RECORD OF SERVICE <br />AND EXPANSION OF FACILITIES <br /> <br />The record of the Company down <br />through the years Clearly indicates its <br />ability to successfully carry through <br />Some of the facts which prove the Company's ability <br /> <br />the program which it proposes. <br />are as follows: <br /> <br />1. The Company has never failed to meet the demands of its custo- <br />mers for power during war or peace. <br /> <br />2. At the time of the 1948 winter peak, when the national average <br />of reserve capacity was only 5%, the Company's Central f\ystem <br />had a reserve capacity of more than 15%. <br /> <br />3. During the year 1948 the Company added 50,000 kilowatts in <br />steam generating capability to its Central 8.1stem. At the <br />present time it has under construction a new steam generating <br />station which will add 40,000 kilowatts of steam capacity in <br />1950 and 'an additional 40,000 kilowatts in 1951. <br /> <br />During 1948 the Company placed in service a new 110 Kv trans- <br />mission line from its Valmont steam plant into the northern <br />Colorado area proposed to be served by the duplicating lines <br /> <br />4. <br />= <br />~ <br />. <br />. <br />~ <br />u <br />. <br />i <br />. <br />~ <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br />