CONSTRUCTION OF BIG CO-OP POWER PLANT EXPECTED TO START SOON
Construction of Big Co-op Power Plant Expected To Start Soon $750,000 Genoa Project To Serve Areas in 3 States A decision on approval of contracts for construction of the Tri-State Power...
...The expectation is that the auditorium will serve as a training place for REA staff workers in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois...
...A novel feature of the Tri-State Power Co-op plant will be an auditorium to seat 300 persons...
...Lawrence C. Cole, a Dane county farmer living in the town of York, Is playing one of the leading parts in construction of the Tri-State plant, as co-ordinator of the project...
...Cole was so successful in this task at Chippewa Falls that he was again "borrowed" for the Genoa project...
...Several persons from the Madison area are active in development of the project...
...Taking a lesson from the Chippewa Falls plant, which is already close to capacity for peak loads, the Tri-Btate Power co-operative plant will start immediately with a 6,000 kilowatt capacity, with provision already planned for doubling the capacity...
...The C. A. Hooper Co., Madison, was Jow bidder at $150,000 on a subcontract for heating, plumbing and wiring for the new plant...
...The Tri-State Power Co-op will build about 350 miles of transmission lines this summer to reach the cooperatives it intends to serve in Wisconsin, Iowa and southern Minnesota...
...Atty...
...When the Genoa plant is in full operation, the total power supplied by REA generators to Wisconsin lines will jump to 75 per cent...
...W. E. Rabe, president of the Oakdale co-op near Tomah, is secretary-treasurer, and F. B. Blanchard, Lewiston, Minn., Is vice president...
...TV A Engineer Aids The plant will be built on a sand bank between the Burlington railroad tracks and the Mississippi river, permitting economical barge service for coal...
...E. J. Stoneman of Platteville State Teachers college is president of the Tri-State Power co-op...
...Prof...
...Roland A. Wank, Knoxville, Tenn., chief architect for the Tennessee Valley authority, was the designing architect for the building...
...The Genoa plant, which is scheduled for completion six months after the contracts' are approved, will make a radical change in the source of power for REA co-operatives in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, most of which now buy their current wholesale from private utilities...
...The Chippewa Falls plant is now the largest REA generating plant In the country, but the Genoa plant, designed as one of the most modern high pressure, high temperature steam generating plants in the world, will be considerably larger...
...The Wisconsin Power Co-operative generating plant at Chippewa Falls, now serving 12 REA co-operatives, furnishes «ix per cent of the power for REA lines of the state...
...Construction of Big Co-op Power Plant Expected To Start Soon $750,000 Genoa Project To Serve Areas in 3 States A decision on approval of contracts for construction of the Tri-State Power Co-operative plant at Genoa, Wis., is expected in a few days from Washington, D. C. REA authorities, which will start construction on the $750,000 project to serve many rural electrification co-operatives in Wisconsin and the Madison area...
...A member of the Columbus REA co-op, Cole was "borrowed" by the REA at the time the Chippewa Falls plant was constructed to handle obtaining of rights of way for the power lines...
...Within five years it is anticipated that about 20.000 farms will be served from Genoa...
...Among them are several co-ops in the Madison area, including the Oakdale co-op serving Adams and Juneau counties...
...Floyd Wheeler, Madison, Is handling legal matters for the Tri-State co-op...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
