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<br />- 2 - <br /> <br />Consumer-Owned <br />System <br /> <br />Increase In 1981 Rates <br />If CRSP Power Given To <br />Private Power Companies <br />-2L Cost <br /> <br />Colorado <br />Estes Park <br />Longmont <br /> <br />51 <br />49 <br /> <br />$1,255,000 per year <br />$5,585,000 per year <br /> <br />Nevada <br />Overton Park Power <br />District No.5 <br />Mount Wheeler <br /> <br />90 $ 1,282,000 per year <br />59 $ 3,892,000 per year <br />68 $ 829,000 per year <br />36 $3,170,000 per year <br />152 $ 3,236,000 per year <br />149 $ 408,000 per year <br />U8 $11,981,000 per year <br />64 $ 479,000 per year <br />67 $ 1,399,000 per year <br /> <br />New Mexico <br />Truth or Consequences <br />Columbus Electric Coop <br /> <br />Utah <br />Dixie Escalante Coop <br />Ephraim <br />Provo <br /> <br />Wyoming <br />Cody <br />Bridger Valley <br />Electric Coop <br /> <br />UP&L explains away these facts on the ground of "fairness". It <br /> <br />argues its concept of "fairness" even though: <br /> <br />Consumer-owned systems are repaying with interest <br />every federal dollar invested in CRSP generating <br />facilities <br /> <br />CRSP power only recently became more economical <br />than alternative facilities UP&L actually built and the <br />consumer systems would have built had they not opted <br />for CRSP power in the 1960's <br /> <br />The cities in which UP&L sells its power are free to <br />establish their own consumer-owned utilities and apply <br />for CRSP but have decided not to. <br /> <br />UP&l's cry of "fairness" is one of very recent vintage, arising only <br /> <br />after it discovered CRSP power had become cheaper than its own. UP&l's posi- <br />