Area faces power shortage
in coming winter months
There may be an electrical
power shortage in this area in the
months ahead, but at worst,
demand can only exceed supply
by a few percentage points.
That’s the estimation of Her
bert Hunt, director of operations
and engineering for the Eugene
Water and Electric Board
(EWEB). One of Hunt’s
responsibilities is keeping track
of the power supply. Right now he
says he’s “neither optimistic nor
pessimistic” about the near
future
Hunt was interviewed by the
Emerald at his EWEB office
on Friday. He said his staff was
developing a “curtailment plan”
for conserving electricity if
shortages do occur.
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“We know very definitely that
the amount of energy that can be
produced in the Northwest is just
about equal to the anticipated
load that will be coming up this
winter,” Hunt said. “If we are
short we’re not going to be short
30 or 40 or 50 per cent. We’re
going to be short in the neigh
borhood of maybe two, three, or
four per cent, a very small
amount.”
By MARK FRYBURG
Of the Emerald
Since the “curtailment plan”
isn’t complete yet. Hunt couldn’t
say what action EWEB would
take if the shortage arrived. He
assured the Emerald that “it’s
not anticipated” that any
possible shortage “would really
seriously in any way affect the
living of people or their jobs or
the output of goods and material
and so forth ”
He speculated that a few of the
conservation measures that
might become imperative during
a light shortage would be turning
the thermostat down “a iittle
bit.” Commercial enterprises
might have to reduce display
lighting and other illumination.
No industrial production would
have to stop, but electrical
motors that might normally be
left idling would have to be shut
down when not in use.
Such procedures would “easily
save the amount of energy that
we’re talking about.”
Unusually low power supply is
caused by unusually low water
behind the dams. “The reservoirs
will probably not fill at all this
summer. The energy is not just
in the reservoirs,” Hunt stressed.
Looking into the next few
years, Hunt sees no problem in
meeting the demand load. His
prediction would be wrong if a
severe national emergency
created power shortages in
regions with less adequate
energy supplies.
“It’s quite conceivable that to
lessen the difficulties in another
part of the United States, the
hydropower in the Northwest
would actually be denied to the
customers up here and shipped to
that part of the country. The
probability of that is quite
remote I don’t foresee that in the
near future at all,” he stated.
Most people in the United
States get their power from the
combustion of “fossil fuels,”
coal, oil and natural gas. Those
energy supplies are getting
scarcer, emphasizing the need
for alternate power sources. “It’s
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Before attending the State
Board of Higher Education
Finance Committee meeting last
Friday, ASUO President Greg
Leo took time out to talk about
the University’s incidental fees,
an inevitable tuition hike m the
fall and alleged violations on the
part of the Incidental Fee
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Leo added that students can’t
do much about the tuition hike
instituted at the board meeting
due to what he calls rising costs,
increasing inflation and federal
funding trends.
He also said that the incidental
fee at the University will again
rise this fall, probably to around
the $21.50 level. This is an in
crease of almost $2.50 per
student.
“I don’t expect problems with
the university budget,” com
mented Leo, “but one area has
been a problem: the funding for
the athletic department (A.D.) ”
University guidelines, Leo
went on to say, limit the amount
of money that can be cut from
any traditionally-funded
program to a 10 per cent
reduction the first two years and
then none the third year.
“The IFC budget is in direct
violation to these guidelines,”
said Leo. “Many forces will be
angered if a good quality athletic
program is not run at the
University.”
The IFC’s recommendation of
$138,000 for the A.D. was $12,000
short of the amount proposed by
both Leo and former ASUO
President Bill Wyatt.
The clash between Leo and the
IFC arose because of a prior
commitment on the part of the
ASUO to pay for unrealized
student ticket sales by the
athletic department. This year
$22,000 was spent by the ASUO for
this purpose.
The extra $12,000 was
originally planned by Leo to
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