CHIPPEWA REA ORDERS SLASH IN POWER COST
Chippewa REA Orders Slash In Power Cost THE largest REA-financed generating system now in service, the Chippewa Falls, Wis., plant of the Wisconsin power cooperative, has just reduced by...
...SEATTLE...
...The reduction, effected through elimination of the $100 per month, or $1,200 annual, transmission charge levied on each of the 12 member distribution cooperatives after each has taken service for a year, was adopted by the board o! directors of the generating cooperative at a recent meeting and the contract changes have now been informally approved by Administrator Harry Slattery...
...The UAW-AFL won in five of the 61 points...
...Chippewa REA Orders Slash In Power Cost THE largest REA-financed generating system now in service, the Chippewa Falls, Wis., plant of the Wisconsin power cooperative, has just reduced by approximately 10 per cent its charge for wholesale power to its member distribution cooperatives...
...The Seattle Teachers union is actively engaged in a campaign for full restoration of the salary cuts Imposed last fall...
...DETROIT, Mich.—The NLRB's largest election, among 137,451 General Motors workers, resulted In an overwhelming victory for the United Automobile workers (CIOi...
...Delivered to the distribution side of the substation, including all line losses and expense of transmission, the cost to the distributors averaged 1.39 cents per kwh in January...
...LINCOLN, Neb.—Under the active leadership of Roy M. Brewer, the Nebraska State Federation of Labor has increased its membership frcm 2,000 to 5,000 in the past three years...
...The plant and system were built with REA loans totalling SI.095.000...
...Cost of generating power in this plant has declined steadily as the load has increased, and leveled out, until it now averages 8.2 mills per kilowatt hour at the bus-bar...
...The Chippewa generating plant has been in operation a few weeks more than two years...
...This reduction will reduce this to approximately 1.25 cents per kw-h...
...The 12 member distribution cooperatives have nearly 17.000 members receiving or soon to receive service...
...It consists of diesel generating machinery totalling 3,500 kilowatts capacity, a building housing the machinery, an extensive network of transmission lines carrying the current at high tension, and substations located in the distribution areas...
...Wash...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
