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Testified Dixon: "Last December AEC Assistant General Manager Walter Williams wrote J. B. McAfee, president of Electric Energy, Inc., which built a $197 million power plant for AEC at Joppa, ILL. for suggestions on how AEC could get more power. McAfee wrote back that he thought Electric Energy should not build another plant, instead suggested that a new company handle it. McAfee then telephoned Dixon, a vice president of Electric Energy (which is 10% owned by Middle South) and told him of AEC's need. In January or February Dixon...
...Electric Energy, Inc., a combine of five privately owned utility firms, to supply power for Atomic Energy Commission installations at Paducah, Ky. In 1950 AEC contracted with TVA to build a power plant at nearby Shawnee, Ky., and with Electric Energy, Inc. to build a similar plant at Joppa, Ill., just across the Ohio River...
...Joppa plant was scheduled to get into operation three months ahead of TVA's. Said Clapp: "Both TVA and E.E., Inc. suffered from delayed deliveries from equipment manufacturers. Both encountered labor difficulties. Both projects missed the completion dates originally scheduled. Trade journals and some of the daily press heralded this 'race' . . . After a while, however, the cries of the professional spectators died down. It began to be apparent that the wrong horse was coming in ahead. Two years and three months from the time construction was started, the first unit at TVA's Shawnee plant...
...past few years, utility men have also displayed a new aggressive spirit in pooling their resources to meet the challenge of atomic power. When the Atomic Energy Commission wanted a 900,000 kw. plant to supply its Paducah, Ky. works, five utilities combined to do the job at Joppa, Ill.; last year 15 companies joined to put up the two biggest private-power plants in the U.S. (total capacity: 2.2 billion kw.) to supply power to AEC's Portsmouth, Ohio atomic plant. Utility men have not forgotten that their own future may lie in atomic energy. For the past...
...system, would have little cause for complaint. He was asking permission to charge one-party business subscribers only $4.50 a month (up from $3), and party-line residential subscribers only $1.75 (instead of $1.50), with a distance surcharge for maintaining those miles of poles running to Bean Station and Joppa...