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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

FEDERAL PROCEDURES RELATING TO ADEQUACY AND

RELIABILITY OF ELECTRIC POWER

6mr71

101

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1970d

CONTENTS

AUGUST 10, 1970 (BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS)

Testimony of:

Page

Guy W. Nichols, executive vice president, New England Electric

System

5

William I. Cowin, chairman, Masachusetts Department of Public

Utilities

Dermot P. Shea, executive secretary, State Consumers Council_.

Robert G. Taylor, partner and manager, R. W. Beck & Associates_.

George Spiegel, counsel, Municipal Electric Association_.

James Lydon, vice president, Boston Edison_.

John N. Nassikas, Chairman, Federal Power Commission___

Charles R. Ross, former member, Federal Power Commission__-.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1970 (COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA)

Lewis Moss, member, South Carolina Public Service Commission____

William B. McGuire, president, Duke Power Co----.

42

83

96

101

Arthur Williams, president, South Carolina Electric and Gas Co--

John A. Warren, president, Carolina Pipeline Co-

111

126

EXHIBITS

A. Voltage reductions-New England area, January 1, 1970, to August 1,

1970__

14

B. Letter from Robert G. Taylor, R. W. Beck & Associates, to Dermot

Shea, Consumers Council, February 17, 1970.

15

C. Résumé of Robert G. Taylor, R. W. Beck & Associates__

17

D. Letter from Robert G. Taylor, R. W. Beck & Associates, to Thomas

Susman___

18

E. Presentation charts of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. -

121

APPENDIXES

I. Boston Edison Co. emergency load control plan__

136

II. REMVEC electric reliability reports, New England area_

III. Letter from George E. Tomlinson, FPC Bureau of Power, to the

editors of the Washington Post.

160

173

IV. Excerpt (ch. 9), Federal Power Commission report to the President
on prevention of power failures (July 1967).

V. Responses by State commission staff representatives and operating

utility representatives concerning load shedding and load relief

procedures, Northeastern United States and Western United

States..

185

175

VIII. Federal Power Commission release and order, docket R-362,

reliability and adequacy of electric service.--

IX. Federal Power Commission, Bureau of Power, summer 1970 load-

supply situation (July 28, 1970).

VI. Progress reports of the regional organizations to the executive
board of National E ectric Reliability Council (April 1970)_.

VII. New England power exchange operating procedure No. 4: Action

during abnormal operating conditions__

195

217

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