JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

[Source: Federal Power Commission, News Digest, Dec. 3, 1970 (Based on Edison

Electric Institute Data).]

1 Year-end capacity from 1940 to 1950, inclusive; thereafter the figures represent the sum of the capacities of each of the 8 Federal Power Commission power supply regions at the end of the month in which each regional annual peak load occurred.

2 Sum of the December peak loads of each region from 1940 to 1950, inclusive; thereafter the figures represent the sum of the individual peak loads of each region for the month in which each regional annual peak load occurred.

3 "Reserve margins amounting to 15 or 20 percent of expected peak load demand generally are considered necessary to compensate for forced outages ***" (FPC release No. 16755 at 1.)

SOURCE: 49 FPC Ann. Rep. 10 (1969).

(All volumes in billions of thousand-cubic feet at psia and 60° F.)

SOURCES: Remarks of John N. Nassikas, Chairman, FPC, to the 2d International Conference on LNG, "A Regulator's View of the Growing LNG Industry" 8 (Paris, France, Oct. 19-23, 1970); Bureau of Natural Gas, Federal Power Commission, "A Staff Report on National Gas Supply and Demand" 11 (September 1969).

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5 Licensed projects and headwater determinations.

6 Electric rates, service provisions, jurisdiction, interconnections, mergers, security issues. SOURCE: FPC, Aug. 5, 1970.

1 Remarks of John N. Nassikas, Chairman, FPC, before the 1970 Convention of the American Gas Association (New Orleans, La., Oct. 12, 1970).

2 Remarks of Chairman Nassikas before the Electrical World Conference for Utility Executives (Washington, D.C., Aug. 10, 1970).