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<br />UU21~7 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />__or.~ <br /> <br />n News <br /> <br />Weather <br />Warmer <br />page 171 <br /> <br />466 PAGts <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />February 19. 1984 <br /> <br />SOt <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Extra power <br />boosts rates <br />, , <br />~ ~J -, I~ "t-:. <br />in the west <br /> <br />By SANDY GRAHAM <br />ROCky Mounta," He-ws ~ltmCelEnfll'OY Wrtter <br />Cop~righl 198<1, Oenve<" PublIshing Co <br /> <br />Utilities' have so overbuilt mullimiUion-douar:fpo~.r <br />plants in the Rocky Mountain region that the amoun\. or <br />excess power is almost twice what the utility industry saYs <br />it should be. lhe Rocky Mountain News bas !e..1rncd. . . <br />Th(" excess' power in Colorado. eastern Wyoming. .New <br />:\Iexica and Arizona is enough to serve 1 2 million hou~c- <br />holds. It costs consumers millions of dollars in higher rates., <br />Ofrt'Cials acknowledge that massive excesses ,will conlin- <br />ue un i1 at'teast the 1990s. . <br />The,News h..'lS found: <br />. Eleven generating units .11 eight sites have gone into. <br />operation in the regIon since 1980 at a cost of marc than <br />$5,6 billion. I <br />. In Colorado, four units have started work in the P.1St <br />four',nars, despile sharp drops In demand for power. <br />. Another 18 units at 11 soites are scheduled to go on line <br />in the~region bctwC('n 198...and 1993, adding nearly 6.5 <br />billion walls of c]('('tridty to the utilitv system. , <br />. This'year, the four-state region wlh be able lo generate <br />j' billion more .....alts than the e:q)('ctE'd peak. demand of 15.7 <br />billion walts this summer, twice the ..5.11('(.... cushion" that <br />enn the utility industry says Il should ha\'e. <br />.- ~................ - -. ... <br />