WSP02515

• File Number: 8220.100.50
• Description: CRSP - Power
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1962
• Author: L. N. McClellan
• Title: Report to the Engineering Committee of the Upper Colorado River Commission on the Transmission System for the Colorado River Storage Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

marketing areas and criteria.

~ The so-called MOdified Transmission system proposed by

the Bureau of Reclamation and shown on Fig. 1, was an all-Federal

transmission system which .the Bureau considered adequate to deliver

C.R.S.P. power to preference customers in Arizona, Colorado, New

Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. This all-Federal txansmission system

was the starting point for.the negotiations between the Bureau and

the Investor-OWned power cOmpanies.

As a basis for the negotiations with the power companies,

the Bureau of Reclamation first undertook to make load projections

for all of the preference customers in the area to be supplied with

C.R.S.P.power. Each preference customer was requested to sub1llit
estimates of its future load requirements, together with its present

and proposed generating capacities. While some of the Investor-OWDed

power. companies have indicated that they think the load projeotions

are overly optimistic, in some instances these load projections have

been accepted for the purposes of power flow studies and for planning

the proposed transmission system for the C.R.S.P.

The load projections indicated that by 1973 the loads

of the preference customers in the Upper Basin would absorb all of

the C.R.S.P. power that has been allocated to the Upper Basin. That

is the withdrawal of C.R.S.P. power from the Lower Basin would have

been completed by that time.
. 'mle next step in the planning of an interconnected and
integrated transmission system for the C.R.S.P. was an extensive
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