WSP06362

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1971
• Author: PSIAC
• Title: Pacific Southwest Analytical Summary Report on Water and Land Resources based on Framework Studies of Four Regions - November 1971
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Figure 18.-Water-associated electric power installa-
tion costs.

Costs

The installation cost of the planned program for
meeting the electric power load is shown on figure 17.
The total water-associated electric power installa-
tion costs are shown on figure 18.
Distribution costs, which would be entirely
non.Federal, are not included in the electric power
installation cost. Annual costs of operation,
maintenance, and replacement for the planned
generating and transmission facilities are shown in
figure 19.

Alternatives

In the California and the Great Basin Regions, and
perhaps in the Lower Colorado Region, there are

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Figure 19.-Annual O&M costs for thermal power
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quantities of hot groundwater. Research and
development may demonstrate these hot water
sources could supply water and power in substantial
amounts at competitive costs. A significant problem
in use of these resources is the salinity of the hot
groundwater. Utilization of this resource could
displace an equivalent amount of nuclear- or
fossil.fueled base load power.
Alternative power sources frequently discussed
include:
1. Thefffioelectric generators;
2. Thermionic generators;
3. Fuel cells;
4. Atomic fusion; and
5. Magneto.hydrodynamics, or MHO.
The first three of these are not now ptactical for
central station generation and are not expected to
become so in the period studied.

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