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Forwards PG&E 630227 News Conference Announcement Re Util Expansion Program Dependency on Economics of Humboldt Bay & Bodega Bay Reactors
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Site: Humboldt Bay, 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 02/27/1963
From: Southwick R
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Dunesia Clark, Lowenstein R, Pittman F
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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. Rodney L. Southwick, Assistant to the j Manager for Public Information, SAN PG&E RELEASE ON EKPANSION MI RLS The enclosed ==== wament was teeved today by PC&E at a news con-fare ce presided ever by Gerunes R. Sancherlmad, PG&R president.

In replying to inquiries, authertsed stated the moeunt of nuclear power included in the expansion programa would depend on the oceaemics I of thumboldt Bay and Bodega Bay reacters and futura developments in the reacter field.

Should the ---f as of nuclear power prove out, autherland was reported to have told newommen all the future power stations listed on pages 5 med 6 except Centra Costa, Pittsburg and Potrero probably would be nuclear.  ;

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1. PC&E release dtd 2/27/63  !
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j Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced its electric power con-  ;

struction schedule through 1980, unveiling an unprecedented $2.4 billion expansion

- program which cans for a " super system" of massive generating units and extra high'

.i voltage (EHV) transmission lines. The cost figure does not include other transmission '

at lower voltages and distribution facilities.

The program vill add 15 million kilowatts of generating capacity,'more than trebling the existing BG&E capacity. The expansion schedule vill keep the power sys- l tem's capacity ahead of the increasing demand for power caused by both the state's . 1 growth and the increcsing electric use per customer. s The new construction schedule includes nine thermal generating units of 660,000 kilevatts each or larger, seven others of at least 1 million kw and 1,200 miles of EHV lines of at least 500,000 volta. Largest generator on the PG&E system f today is 330,000 kw and the highest transmission voltage is 230,000.

The EHV transmission lines scheduled include those announced January 14 as i part of the California Power Pool's proposal to the Bonneville Power Administrator to l t

L build interties between the Northwest and California. PG&E and three other investor  !

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owned California utilities offered to build the EHV interties and thus save the d govemment $100 to $245 million for building Federal transmission facilities to market surplus Bonneville energy in California.  !

l Norman R. Sutherland, PG&E president, in referring to the expansion program '

said, "This vill provide a vbolly new, mammnth-scale generation and. transmission sys- ,

t tem which will be integrated with the Company's existing system."

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l The first of the new generators is scheduled for operation in 1966 at Moss 1

Landing, phasing in with completion of the Company's current construction schedule. I

, This schedule of plants currently abuilding or previous 1/ announced, Sutherland said, 1

involves 2,363,000 kilowatts of new steam and hydroelectric capacity.

Beginning this year, the Company's annual investment in electric system i

expansion vill run vell ahead of the annual average of $135,000,000 which PG&E has spent solely on electric system growth during the past five years, Sutherland said.

At present, PG&E has 14 thermal and 62 hydroelectric plants with a total i

capacity in excess of 6 millitn kilowatts. The augmented expansion program vill j i

boost the Company's thermal capacity alone (nov 4 million kv) to nearly 9 minion I kilowatts by 1970 and to almost 20 million kilowatts by 1980.

"At this time, the schedule naturally is flexible," Sutherland stressed. l I

"We always have to anticipate revisions in area load requirements, rate of growth, l energy from other sources and advances in technology which influence efficiency and cost. But by and large ve now have set our course."

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The big cev generators vill be strategically located around the Company's Northern and Central California system. Application vill be made to the California Public Utilities Commission for authorization of each of these units before construc-tion commences.

Three major new sites already are being acquired for new generating plants.

They are (1) N1pomo, belov Oceano in San Luis Obispo County, (2) South Mass Landing, a mile away from the present less Landing plant, and (3) Montezuma, near Collinsville l in Southern Solano County. Right-of-way work on transmission routes is proceeding at once, Sutherland said.

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"With this pro 6 ram we are providing amply for future demands of our .

customers," the PG&E president observed. " Intensive study and research, including estimates of customer needs up to 1980, convince us that California vill continue to grow as it has ever since World War II. So, ve must continue to expand on an ever-t broadening base to keep ahead of and serve that growth.

"We have been takin6 increasingly longer striacs in generating unit capaci-ties. We moved the PG&E standard size up to 165,000 kilowatts in 1954, and installed seven. In 1960 ve vent up to 330,000-kv and now have seven of that size in operation j or on order, including one to be nuclear-fueled. The move to at least 660,000-kw l units after 1965 and to at least 1,000,000-kv units in the 1970's are the planned next steps up. i mRE ATOM PLANTS SEEN "We vill depend on the atom more and more as time passes" Sutherland declared. "We confidently expect that the Bodega Bay Atomic Park plant vill be economically successful and that many of the new bi8 Benerating units in the con- i struction program after 1965 vin be nuclear.

l "We are proud of this further demonstration of private enterprise doing j such a big job. Besides providin6 vital electric service for the growing needs of Northern and Central California, the immense investment involved vill benefit the public by providing thousands of jobs and establishing important new sources of tax revenue for local, state and federal governments."

EARLY EMPHASIS ON LINES The program vill place early emphasis on the big EHV transmission lines, Sutherland said. These vill be required for the proposed Northwest-California inter-ties and for flexible handling of the big power blocks to flow from the new large- I 1

scale generators. The lines also vill be advantageous to the recently formed l California power pool. The pool agreement, new before the CPUC for approval, pro-vides for exchanges of power between and coordinated operation of the systems of FG&E, Southern California Edison, San Die 6o Gas and Electric Company and the California Electric Pover Company.

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The Company's top transmission voltage standard was 230,000 until last January 1962 when it, announced jointly with Pacific Power and Light Company, of Oregon, a 500,000-volt (EHV) line now being constructed from Klamath Falls, Ore., to j 1

Round Mountain, in Shasta County, to permit larger exchanges of power between the two l utilities and to deliver northwest power to California.  !

l Sutherland said a 500,000-volt line can carry at least three times as much power as a 230,000-volt circuit.

"Thus," he said, "we can anticipate long-range achievements of further economy in operations and lessened requirements for major transmission rights-of-way.

We of cource vin continue to build some 230,000 and n 5,000 volt lines as conditions require . " 1 l

The EHV line connecting with the northwest win be extended south 432 miles  !

from Round Mountain to Midway Substation, near Bakersfield, by 1967, where it vi n i connect with a 500,000 volt line to be built to the Los Angeles area by another l company. The line vin tie in to the Company's existing system at new EHV substa-tions at Table Mountain in Butte County, Tesla near Tracy, Los Banos and Midway.

Meanwhile two 660,000-kv generators vin be instaned at the present Noss Landing Power Plant in 1966 and 1967 and this power win be transmitted over two additional EEV lines to the Los Banos and Tesla substations.

The next stage of EHV system development, to be completed by 1970, vill include a new line from Table Mountain to Tesla via Vaca-Dixon Substation and a second line between Tesla and Los Banos.

Development of generation at the Nipomo site by 1970 vill require EHV lines to transmit that new power into Los Banos Substation and also to Midway Substation.

This vill result in two EHV circuits extending from Midway to Table Mountain.

All of this vill be accomplished by 1970, the first four new generating units producing as much power as the whole R)&E system could gene. rate in 1950--

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. Also, as soon after 1967 as required t'o transmit Northwest power, a second EHV line vill be built from the Oregon border via Round Mountain to Table Mountain j Substation, to pemit additional Northwest power to be transmitted over the Company's j

Pit and Feather River transmission lines.

The 1970-80 period calls for EHV lines from Nipomo to Gates Substation near Coalinga, from South h as Landing to Los Banos, from Montezuma to Bellota Substation east of Stockton and a looping of the Vaca-Dixon-Tesla circuit through the Montezuma l

plant.~ These circuits vill provide transmission for units to be installed at Nipomo,.

South Moss Landing and Montezuma power plants. .)

Here is the full schedule of completion dates for power plants. '(Those recently completed, presently under construction or previously announced are noted by anasterisk.)

Morro Bay No. 3* 330,000 kv (completed recently)

DeSabla(hydro)* 18,500 kv (completed recently) 1963 Humboldt Bay No. 3* (nuclear)- 60,000 kw completed recently)

Morro Bay No. 4* 330,000 kw completed recently)

.GeysersNo.2*(geothermal) 12,500 kv completed recently) '

Stanislaus* (hydro) 82,000 kw completed recently) 1964 Contra Costa No. 6* 330,000 kw Contra Costa No. 7* .330,000 kw -!

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  • 330,000 kw 1965 Potrero No. 3* 210,000 kw  :

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PitNo.6*(hydro) 74,000 hv l Pit No. 7* (hydro) 101,000 kv 1966 Moss Landing No. 6 660,000 kw Belden (hydro) 113,000 kw l 1967

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1971 Potrero No. 4 330,000 kw l - Nipomo No. 2 660,000 kw or larger .;

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