...fixed and established (1) with a view to encouraging the widest possible diversified use of electric power at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, [and] (2) having regard to the recovery ... of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric...

...construction. Southwestern 's mission is to iharket this power and to encourage the most widespread use at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. This has resulted in the construction of a transmission system which now consists of approximately...

...facilities. And on behalf of the FCRFS, BPA is obligated by statute to set its power and wheeling charges at "the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles" that will fully repay any bonds it has issued and fully recover all of the costs to the Federal Government...

...projects under the control of the Department of the Army. Section 5 requires that such power be provided "at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission."2...

...so, under law, we must also operate in a manner which encourages the most widespread use of electric power at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. Due to Bonneville's expanded mission in the region, our annual revenues have grown by more than 500...

...electric energy be marketed: - ". . . in such manner as to encourage the nest widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. ..." Third Power Plant Grand Ooulee Dam Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-448) ; House Report No. 1409 Pages...

...mandate in section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 to ". . . encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. . . ." Scheduling of the power through the TVA operations center would continue, and distribution to...

...disposition of such hydropower shall be "In such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles", and the rates are directed to be drawn as follows: Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the...

...must demonstrate that such rates and schedules would "encourage the mort widespread use of Bonneville power" at "the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles." US Secretary of Fne^cv. Bonneville Power Administration. 13 FERC l6l,157 (1990); US Department of Energy....

...of 1944 (16 USC 825s), which provides that power from Corps of Engineers projects be marketed '* * * at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles * * *,' but it does not specifically define 'sound business principles.' However, the Pacific Northwest...