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The 23 utilities, serving a population of 25-million in an area of 154,000 square miles, today announced the signing of the East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement.
J. Lee Rice, Jr., President of Allegheny Power System (ofi which Potomac Edison is a part) was named acting chairman and spokesman for the 23 company group. He said the agreement establishes the ma chinery for review and evaluation of the member companies plans and operating practices as they pertain to reliability of power supply. In the words of the agreement, its purpose is "further to augment reliability of the parties'bulk power supply through coordination of the parties’ planning and operation of their generation and transmission facilities.*
The I-.CAR companies provide electric service in all or parts of the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, V'irginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky Indiana and Michigan. The present group includes aj 1 of the investor-owned utilities in the area. They expect to add two more companies to the group in Michigan when interconnection facilities are completed.
The 23 companies have combined assets of almost $7 billion and last year hadcombined energy sales of 156billion kilowatt hours. Together, they operate power plants with total generating capability of 28.7 million kilowatts and 20,200 circuit miles of high-voltage transmission lines. Further, new facilities under construction or authorized through 1972 will add 14.6 kilowatts of new capacity and over 4,500 miles of transmission lines. Rice distinguished the agree ment from “power pooling* and other concepts that mark existing interconnection
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