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TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) -- Utility officials in Truckee, California, have rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from a proposed coal-fired power plant in Utah.
The vote by the Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors last night came after ratepayers and renewable energy advocates testified that Truckee should not be supporting an energy-generating system that contributes to global warming.
The rejection will force the 12-thousand-customer utility to buy power on the open market at prices utility staff members say will be twice what the Utah power would have cost them.
District officials said rejecting the Utah power likely would raise customer rates by 30 percent.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Senator Dianne Feinstein both wrote letters urging the board to reject the Utah project.
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