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<br />-5- <br /> <br />o <br />o <br />Cj <br />"-=' This will complete all power plants whioh will genero.te 75% of the total <br />--.l energy by t he end of the fisoal year 1944 and will complete 0.11 power <br />,--.l feo.tures by the end of the fiscal year 1945. <br /> <br />8. Directly tributary to the project is Northern Colorado, Wyoming, <br />and We stern Nebraska. The major power systems of thi s area are now inter- <br />connected. The total dependable oapacity of the interconnected and ad- <br />jacent isolate d systems on Januo.ry 1, 1<;42 v.ns 257,521 kilowatts, of which <br />53,340 kilowatts were hydro and 204.181 kilowatts Were stee.m and internal <br />combustion. Of this e.mount 38.282 kilowatts are considered as reserve, <br />leaving a net assured capaoity of 219.2.39 kilowatts. By interconnection <br />of the four isolated plants with the large system, the reserve may be <br />reduced to 29.000 kilowatts, resulting in a corresponding raise in net <br />assured capaoi ty to 228.521 kilowatts. <br /> <br />The 1941 peo.k demand was 180,479 kilowatts, and it is estimated <br />that the Denver Ordinance Plant, when up to production. will take an ad- <br />ditional 4,000 kilowatts of demand. The 1941 production was 822,266,247 <br />kilowatt-hours. <br /> <br />The total dependable capacity on January 1, 1942 WaS 257,521 <br />kilowatts and the net assured capacity could eo.sily be made by inter- <br />c onneotion 228,521 kil owatts. leaving an o.vai la" Ie capacity ne>t used of <br />44,042 kilowatts. If the oontemplated program is co.rried out there will <br />be net assured capaoities at the time of the annual peak, which usually <br />ooours in December, as followsl <br /> <br />Deoember, 1942 <br />December, 194.3 <br />December, 1944 <br />De 0 ember , 1945 <br /> <br />229,161 <br />258,261 <br />.369,861 <br />.397,221 <br /> <br />GENERAL <br /> <br />The Coloro.do-Big Thompson Project was oonceived to divert an <br /> <br />average of about .310,000 acre-feet of watsr per annum from the headwaters <br /> <br />of the Colorado River to the South Platte River basin in Northern Colo- <br /> <br />rado, in order to relieve shortages of irrigation water and to generate <br /> <br />hydro-electrio energy. <br /> <br />The projeot oonsists of oollection canals and storo.ge reservoirs <br /> <br />on the Western Slope, a 1.3.1 mile tunnel through the Continental Divide, <br /> <br />0. series of power plants and recapture reservoirs on the Eastern Slope, <br /> <br />together with canals leading from the reservoirs to the vari ous tributa- <br />