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Municipal Power Firms Win Participation CaseMunicipal power pla Is in Michigan, including Holland and Zeeland, ap parently have won a decision against Consumers Power Co I hat would enable the municipals to participate in nuclear generating plants.Holland Board of Public Works general manager Frank Whitney said the case had been appealed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington D C where the appeals toard decision Friday reversed an earlier order of the trial board of the commissionWhitney said Holland and Zeeland joined the litigation against Consumers with power plants in Traverse City and Coldwater and the Wolverine ElectricCooperative and Nothern Michigan Electric Cooperative to enable the municipals and cooperatives to purchase into Consumers' Midland nuclear facility Whitney said the decision Friday, if not appealed further, would give Holland and the others the right to participate in Consumers nuclear generating plants and might have some affect on the use ot Consumers transmission lint's to wheel municipal power between the municipal and cooperative generating plantsWhitney said the original case had been filed a few years ago Last December the Michigan Legislature approved legislation paving the way for municipal power plants to participate in the private power facilities
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Holland Sentinel
Holland, Michigan, US
Sat, Dec 31, 1977
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