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VST N.H. Would Pay More for Independents' Power 03 if I By NEIL DAVIS Fre Press Capital Bureau MONTPELIER A tentatively adopted settlement on rates New Hampshire utili shire technically would have to file a request that the federal commission compel the intermediary utilities to wheel, he said. Several Vermont producers used a question-answer period after Smukler's speech as an occasion to vent anger at the Vermont board for setting such low rates, which are under appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court. The association has argued the Vermont rates will discourage de i v. 4 counsel said Wednesday.

Larry Smukler, addressing Vermont Independent Power Producers Association members at their annual meeting, tantalized them with inside information about the nearly final New Hampshire rates. New Hampshire's short-term energy rate would be about 5.7 cents a kilowatt-hour, compared to the Vermont rate of 3.6 cents set by the Public Service Board. A level 10-year rate would be about 7.3 cents in New Hampshire, versus 4.7 cents in Vermont The New Hampshire 20-year rate would be about 9.9 cents, versus 6.7 cents in Vermont Although saying the New Hampshire rates will create a more lucrative market than exists in Vermont, Smukier warned that Vermont producers may face obstacles in getting their electricity to New Hampshire utilities. "Can Vermont's small power producers take advantage of New Hampshire's higher rates? The answer, I'm afraid, is: 'I don't Smukler said. Under federal law, a New Hampshire utility would have to take the power at New Hampshire rates if the power were delivered to the utility's service territory.

Moving the power would take either the voluntary cooperation of intermediary Vermont utilities or a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that the Vermont utilities cooperate, he said. "If those kinds of wheeling arrangements can be negotiated voluntarily, there's no hitch that I can see," Smukler said. Arranging for federal intervention, however, would be "a very rough row to hoe for any small power producer," he added. One difficulty is that the would-be recipient utility in New Hamp- 1 ties must pay independent power producers would ere-' ate an incentive for Vermont producers to try to get their electricity across the state line, the New Hampshire Pub "We weren't at each other's throats; there weren't a lot of arguments. As a result, I think we're going to have a good settlement," he said.

Public Service Commissioner Richard Saudek has said he would be opposed to the sale of electricity to New Hampshire utilities by Vermont's small producers because that would be a misuse of Vermont's natural resources. The department might fight such exports on grounds that the Public Service Board must find that power generation projects provide an economic benefit to the people of the state, Saudek said last week. Smukler said he never intended to suggest that it was New Hampshire's policy to try to "spirit away all Vermont's indigenous power sources. never seen it that way." SMUKLER lic Utilities Commission's general Feds Approve Swanton Hydro Plan velopment of hydroelectric, wind-powered and methane- and wood-burning generation plants. "Why are you guys so amiable when over here we're finding it just the opposite?" one producer asked.

Smukler said the rates in New Hampshire have been set through negotiations between the producers and recipient utilities, with the commission overseeing the process to protect the interests of utility ratepayers. By RICHARD COWPERTHWAIT Free Prats Correspondent The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a license for a proposed $14 million expansion of the Swanton Village Electric Department's hydroelectric plant on the Missisquoi River in Highgate Falls. "We've got it and we have to review it, but it is in hand," Village Manager Orman Croft said Wednesday. While voter approval still is necessary, securing federal approval had loomed as its biggest obstacle, Croft said. The project already essentially has been approved by the state.

Villagers could vote on a bond issue to finance the project by late summer, Croft said, although con- HARRY AMBROSE SONS, Inc. OFF HOME BUHUNGTON, VT 362-965' Croft also said he wants more information on a plan to import up to 200 megawatts of Canadian hydro power that would be carried into Vermont on transmission lines in Franklin and Highgate. The lines would lead to a converter station in Highgate Center, which is slated to be built in a field just north of the hydroelectric plant. "We need to see exactly what the ramifications of that would be," said Croft. Croft had said it was possible the expansion project would not be needed in the wake of Vermont's successful negotiations with Hydro-Quebec to import large amounts of hydro power over 10 years beginning late next year.

"We have to stay open-minded about it," he said. struction is unlikely to start this year. The project involves raising the dam just north of the plant by 30 feet adding a fourth generator and refurbishing two of three existing generators. Generating capacity would increase from 3.9 megawatts to 8.2 megawatts, but would not leave the village self-sufficient. The peak demand last winter was 11.6 megawatts, Croft said.

Croft said conditions were attached to the federal approval, mostly dealing with environmental issues such as the project's impact on fish and wetlands. Another condition requires the department to mitigate effects of nuisance aquatic plants in the reservoir that would be created by raising the dam. Croft said an estimated 2,000 FOR COMMERCIAL BUTTS HINGES LOCKS DOOR CLOSERS PANIC DEVICES HANDICAP HARDWARE METAL DOORS WOOD DOORS FIRE DOORS TOILET PARTITIONS 8 ACCESSORIES FOLDING DOORS 4 PARTITIONS SECURITY SYSTEMS No Big Boy in St. Albans This Year -V Specialist in Fine Residential Hardware WHOLESALE-RETAIL SALES-SERVICE-INSTALLATION SERVING VERMONT BUILDERS. INSTITUTIONS.

DEVELOPERS 4 HOMEOWNERS OVER 20 YEARS restaurant had been approved by the town, but Allard said he apparently also needed a state land-use permit. The restaurant was slated for a site on the east side of U.S. 7 purchased this year by James Fitzgerald and Lynn Wood of St. Albans. The site is just north of a McDonald's restaurant and across the road from a proposed Burger King restaurant which is expected to open this summer.

Allard said he might have interest next year in the same site if it's still available or at another site for a Big Boy restaurant. "There's great potential for the area," be said. feet of Vermont 78 in East High-gate would have to be raised. He said two mobile homes and one house might be affected. Archaelogical digs in the area to be impounded by the reservoir will continue this summer.

"We're not finished with it yet," he said. NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS OF PART-TIME OR SUMMER HELP THE MERCHANTS BANK AGAIN PRESENTS hMiWHil'Fiidd'L-r lift I -f i 5 i i ST. ALBANS Plans to build a Big Boy restaurant on U.S. 7 have been abandoned at least for this year, a Burlington developer said Wednesday. Don Allard, who operates Don's Big Boy and an Arby's restaurant on Shelbume Road in South Burlington, said the timing wasn't right for the St.

Albans project. "It was my own gut feeling that it was too late in the year," said Allard. He said the restaurant would not have opened before fall. "The timing was just not there at this point," said Allard, who added that he had arranged financing. "When you examine all the variables, I think I just got cold feet." Allard said he originally planned for a July opening.

The Conference Plans Wetlands Focus MANCHESTER A wetlands conference, June 14 from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Avalanche Motor Lodge, will examine wetlands classification, values, uses, legislation and protection and what can be done on the local and state levels. Cost of the conference is $15 including lunch. Reservations, required by June 7, may be made with Bennington County Regional Commission, P.O.

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