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<br />6) POWER.
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<br />Note (9): The auth\)r of the Lower Basin portion of the Report
<br />includes the drainage basin of Salton Sea, and in fact all of southern
<br />California, including drainage areas along the Pacific Coast from near
<br />Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. This may be justified under Par.
<br />(a) and (g) Art. II of the Colorado River Compact, but is a treatment
<br />differing from that accorded the Upper Basin. Also, in the Upper Basin
<br />the present installed capacities are those in actual operation, and do
<br />not include prospective installations, whereas in the Lower Basin the
<br />hydro-electric capacity in Southern California includes 79,000 KW for
<br />All-American canal plants, of which but 14,000 KW have been installed
<br />to date, and the item for Colorado River plants is the ultimate capacity
<br />to be installed at Boulder Dam (namely 1,317,500 KW, of which 1,030,000
<br />KW are now installed) and the capacity to be constructed at Davis dam,
<br />which is authorized but not constructed.
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<br />Future electric energy requirements of the Upper Basin (natu-
<br />ral area) and Lower Basin (market area) are forecast in the Report, as
<br />follows:
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<br />1940
<br />1943
<br />1950
<br />1960
<br />1970
<br />1980
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<br />Electric Power Requirement Forecast
<br />(Units 1,000,000 kwh)
<br />Upper Basin Lower Basin
<br />(Natural Area) (Market Area)
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<br />6,512
<br />11,379
<br />14,164
<br />20,687.
<br />25,971
<br />30,000
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<br />225
<br />360
<br />695
<br />1,215
<br />1,885
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<br />Year
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<br />To meet the forecasted future demand, the Report lists 35
<br />potential hydro-electric power plants with combined installed capacity
<br />of 3,641,000 kilowatts and 19,362 million kwh. firm power generation
<br />annually. TogetheI' with present generation capacities of about 11,000
<br />million kwh., these potential hydro-electric plants are expected to satis-
<br />fy future demands until about 1980.
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<br />The seven potential power projects in the Lower Basin, with
<br />1,946,000 KW installed and firm power generation capacity estimated at
<br />10,221 million kwh., together with present generation capacities in the
<br />market area, are expected to satisfy future requirements until 1961, after
<br />which the output deficiencies are forecast at about 5,000 million kwh. by
<br />1970 and about 9,000 million kwh. by 1980. On the other hand the 28 po-
<br />tential power projects in the Upper Basin, with 1,695,000 KW installed
<br />and firm power generation capacities of 9,141 million kwh., are expected
<br />to satisfy the 1980 requirements of the natural basin and leave 7,481
<br />million kwh. available for adjoining areas. Among these are the Lower
<br />Basin market area, where a 1980 deficiency of 9,000 million kwh. is fore-
<br />cast; the Bonneville Basin in Utah, where a 1980 deficiency of 1,335 mi1-
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