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- 3 - capacity and energy from CRSP. Accordingly, in order for UP&L to receive an allocation of CRSP power, the allocations of existing preference customers would have to be reduced. Rather than being used on a more widespread basis, CRSP power would merely be shifted from one set of consumers to another. The testimony presented to Western in this proceeding amply demonstrates that CRSP power is presently marketed at the lowest possible rates. Numerous witnesses at the Public Comment Forum testified to the fact that reductions in their allocations of CRSP power would result in drastic rate in- creases due to the necessity of procuring electricity from alternative sources. For example, the Manager of the Logan City Light and Power Department stated that if CRSP power was not a part of their project, their yearly power costs would nearly double. Tr. at 87. A representative of the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District in Southwestern Arizona stated that a loss of any hydro power would result in a dramatic increase in cost to consumers. Tr. at 61. Morgan City's rates would increase by up to 150% if it suffered any cut in CRSP power. Tr. at 107. Mt. Pleasant's utility bills would increase by 61 % if it sacrificed CRSP power. Tr. at 113. Without a CRSP allocation, Flowell Electric Associ~Yon's rates for irrigation pumping would be raised by as much as 79%. Tr. at 132.- In contrast to these enormous potential rate increases, UP&L has only claimed that a potential 25% decrease in rates would result from an alloca- tion of CRSP power. See Tr. at 101. As demonstrated in Section III of the R.W. Beck Report, however, the availability of CRSP power would more likely result in only a 5% rate decrease for UP&L customers. Whatever the rate reduction UP&L claims it would seek if it received an allocation of CRSP power, that reduction would be more than offset by rate increases for other consumers of CRSP power. Therefore, it must be concluded that Western's current and proposed marketing criteria result in the most widespread use of CRSP power at the lowest possible rates, and that an allocation of power to UP&L would contravene this statutory mandate. B. Western's Marketing Policies Promote The Public Interest And The General Welfare Of Consumers "It would be devastating for people like me if my power rates were to increase at all . . .." (A widow from Lehi, Utah, Tr. at 70-71). "The projected power increase, if the city lost some of the CRSP power, could put our business in jeopardy . . .." (A meat packer from Hyrum, Utah, Tr. at 84). !y Additional examples of rate increases that preference customers would be forced to initiate if their CRSP power allocations were reduced are contain- ed in Section II of the R.W. Beck Report.