151⁄2 percent of the total firm capacity of the St. Lawrence and Niagara projects or 181⁄2 percent leaving out the Schoellkopf replacement power. Should the estimated growth of the municipal loads turn out to be overoptimistic the unused portion of the power allocated as withdrawable would continue to go to the rural and domestic consumers in the market area served by the private utilities. In the allocation of St. Lawrence power 30,000 kilowatts was allocated to Plattsburg and 70,000 kilowatts to the other municipalities and 3 rural electric cooperatives in the market area or close thereto a total of 100,000 kilowatts. In order to provide for the requirements of all of the municipals and rural electric cooperatives in an enlarged, combined Niagara-St. Lawrence market area, it will require 325,000 kilowatts from the Niagara project. To do this will require increasing to 200,000 kilowatts the withdrawable portion of the 730,000 kilowatts allocated to the private utilities. A tabulation giving the detailed requirement in 1955 of the municipals and rural electric cooperatives involved is attached. H. B. T. Estimated 1955 power requirements of municipalities and rural electric cooperatives within or adjacent to St. Lawrence and proposed Niagara market areas in New York State I. St. Lawrence market area: (a) Municipalities-Subtotal municipal requirements_ (1) Boonville, (2) Frankfort, (3) Green Island (4) (1) Delaware County Electric Cooperative, (2) Oneida II. Proposed Niagara market area: (a) Municipalities-Subtotal municipal requirements. (1) Akron, (2) Andover, (3) Angelica, (4) Arcade, (5) (b) Rural electric cooperatives-Subtotal rural electric cooper- (1) Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Electric Coop., (2) Steuben Total requirements of municipalities and rural electric coop- BASIS OF WHEELING CHARGES IN FOLLOWING TABLE Kilowatts 39,000 4,000 43.000 82,000 2.000 84,000 127,000 The cost of wheeling over private utility transmission systems to consumers in Pennsylvania was assumed to be made up of a change of 1.75 mills for the transmission within New York plus a charge for transmission in Pennsylvania. The wheeling charge of each system in Pennsylvania was assumed to be the average cost of all transmission over lines of such system, as estimated from data published by the Federal Power Commission for 1955. Where Niagara power would be required to be wheeled by more than one utility system in Pennsylvania, the average transmission costs of all the utilities involved were included. The total loss in transmission to Pennsylvania consumers was assumed to be 8 percent. |