Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) records consist of various meeting minutes from projects and exhibits, both in physical and digital files, from 1980 to 2022. The UAMPS records also contain meeting minutes, correspondence, video cassettes, scrapbooks, and other materials related to Intermountain Consumer Power Associations (ICPA) from 1957 to 1999. The Board of Directors meeting minutes cover monthly meetings starting in January 1981 to 2022. These minutes detail current projects, trainings, and other important information.
"Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) is a full-service interlocal agency, that provides comprehensive wholesale electric energy services, on a non-profit basis, to community-owned power systems throughout the Intermountain West. The UAMPS membership represents 50 members from Utah, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming. UAMPS provides comprehensive energy services to its members, including planning, financing, developing, acquiring, constructing, operating and maintaining varied projects and transmission for the benefit of members. UAMPS currently operates 16 separate projects that provide power supply, transmission, and other services to the members who participate in them. Members choose which projects they participate in, based on their unique needs." (Quoted from UAMPS' website: https://www.uamps.com/)
Established under the Interlocal Cooperative Act to plan, finance, and operate electric power projects, UAMPS began in 1980 with twenty-one members located around Utah, such as the cities of Ephraim, Logan, and Morgan. The first project UAMPS entered into contract with was the Hunter Project, located in Emery County, Utah in 1981. Within the next ten years, UAMPS gained ten more members and contracted five other projects. One unique project during this time was the Member Generation Project launched in 1987. This project benefited UAMPS members by integrating member-owned generation into the Pool. In 1990, UAMPS adjusted their organizational agreements to create independent project boards to enhance the focus and process of each project. In 1992, UAMPS once again amended their organizational agreements to allow other states to become members. With this amendment, Fredonia, Arizona and Page Electric Utility in Page, Arizona joined UAMPS. Currently, UAMPS extends memberships to seven states located in the American West. In 1995, UAMPS acquired the administration functions of Intermountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) after they dissolved.
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The UAMPS collection is arranged by board of directors meeting minutes, annual member and special member meeting minutes, committee meeting minutes, and projects meeting minutes. The papers are arranged chronologically within each section. Each Sub-Series is arranged by date that the meeting was held. The Sub-Series in series III, IV, and V are arranged in alphabetical order, and then the files are ordered chronologically. All documents were originally housed in bound binders or expanding file folders and are currently arranged in that same original order that they were received. Most of the audio materials in this collection are separated from the paper files, except three micro dictation cassettes, which are located in box 91, folder 4, and a Shoshone Energy/Idatherm presentation July 18, 2007 on a CD Rom, which is located in box 160, folder 23. These audio files are in these locations because they were originally housed within these paper files, unlike the other audio files. When applicable, each UAMPS project Sub-Series contains a description of the project. These descriptions derived from the UAMPS website, https://www.uamps.com/.
Series I: Board of Director minutes, 1980-2020
Sub-series 1: Board of Directors minutes
Sub-series 2: Board of Directors Executive Session
Series II: Membership minutes, 1981-2019
Sub-series 1: Annual membership minutes
Sub-series 2: Special member minutes
Series III: Committee minutes, 1993-2020
Sub-series 1: Annexation committee
Sub-series 2: Audit committee minutes
Sub-series 3: Automated Metering committee minutes
Sub-series 4: Budget committee minutes
Sub-series 5: By-Laws committee minutes
Sub-series 6: Chairman's Distributed Generation Task Force minutes
Sub-series 7: Executive committee minutes
Sub-series 8: Governance committee minutes
Sub-series 9: Marketing committee minutes
Sub-series 10: New Member committee minutes
Sub-series 11: Public Relations committee minutes
Sub-series 12: Resource committee minutes
Sub-series 13: Transformer Alliance committee minutes
Series IV: Study Project minutes, 1991-2008
Sub-series 1: Bonanza Study Project minutes
Sub-series 2: Cooperative Pool Study Project minutes
Sub-series 3: Dworshak Study Project minutes
Sub-series 4: Fuel Acquisition Study Project minutes
Sub-series 5: Idaho Wind Study Project minutes
Sub-series 6: Peaking Unit Study Project minutes
Sub-series 7: Gas Reserves Study Project minutes
Sub-series 8: Two Elks Study Project minutes
Series V: Project minutes, 1988-2020
Sub-series 1: Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP)
Sub-series 2: Central-St George Project
Sub-series 3: Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP)
Sub-series 4: Craig-Mona Transmission Project
Sub-series 5: Firm Power Supply Project (first known as the Idaho Project)
Sub-series 6: Freedom Project
Sub-series 7: Government and Public Affairs Project (GPA)
Sub-series 8: Horse Butte Wind Project
Sub-series 9: Hunter Project
Sub-series 10: Intermountain Power Project (IPP)
Sub-series 11: IPP Unit 3 Project
Sub-series 12: Member Generation Project
Sub-series 13: Members Service Project
Sub-series 14: Natural Gas Project
Sub-series 15: Payson Power Project
Sub-series 16: Pool Project
Sub-series 17: Resource Project
Sub-series 18: San Juan Power Supply Project
Sub-series 19: Veyo Heat Recovery Project
Series VI: Intermountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) Board of Directors minutes, 1957-1993
Series VII: ICPA annual meeting minutes, 1958-1995
Series VIII: ICPA committee minutes, 1974-1999
Series VIX: ICPA member correspondence and information, 1978-1999
Series X: UAMPS Annual Report, 1982-2020
Series XI: Video cassettes, 1990-1999
Series XII: UAMPS scrapbooks, 1974-1988
Series XIII: UAMPS tape cassettes, undated
Series XIV: Digital File, 2021-2022
Digital Collection found at
This collection was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by UAMPS in January 2021.
Collection was processed in 2021 and 2022.
"The Carbon Free Power Project is a nuclear plant to be located at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls Idaho. It will comprise of up to twelve 77 megawatt NuScale Power Modules. The NuScale Power Modules provides flexibility to ramp up and down as needed to follow and complement intermitten renewable resources like wind, and solar. The first module is anticipated to be on-line in 2029 with the remaining modules being installed in 2030."
The focus of the Central-St. George Project is to improve the quality and reliability of transmission service to the members in southwestern Utah. The project includes a 345 to 138 kV Central substation, 21 miles of double circuit 138 kV transmission line from the Central substation to the St. George substation, four miles of 138 kV transmission line from the St. George substation to the 138 to 69 kV River substation, 12 miles of transmission line connecting the river substation to Hurricane City and other system upgrades. The project also owns jointly with PacifiCorp 21 miles of double circuit 345 kV transmission line from Red Butte substation to St. George substation.
The Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) is federally owned and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. One purpose of CRSP is the production of hydroelectric capacity and energy. The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) markets and transmits CRSP power in 15 western and central states. WAPA has 10,000 megawatts of capacity in 56 power plants. UAMPS acts as a single purchasing agent for our members that have a firm allocation of CRSP capacity and energy that is purchased through the Integrated Contract for Electric Services.
The Craig-Mona Project involves the transmission capability of two interconnected 345 kV transmission lines. UAMPS owns a 15 percent interest in the first segment, running west from Craig, Colorado to the Bonanza Power Plant in northeast Utah. UAMPS holds an entitlement to 54 megawatts of capacity in the second segment from Bonanza to an interconnection at Mona, Utah.
The Firm Power Supply Project, first called the Idaho Project, manages various power supplies for participating members. The project agreement provides flexible terms for the purchase and the sale of capacity and energy from multiple resources. This project includes long-term market purchases, a wind purchase from the Pleasant Valley Wind Energy Facility through Avangrid, a geothermal/solar project through Cyro Energy, and a utility scale solar project scheduled to be online in June 2022 through NTUA Generation, and utility scale solar project scheduled to be online in December of 2022 through Steele Solar, LLC.
A one-member project of Northern Wasco which progressed for a year.
Lobbying and the political considerations of the members who elect to participate in these actions fall under the Government and Public Affairs Project. Nationally and locally, UAMPS represents a strong political stance on issues related to electric utilities and the public power movement.
The Horse Butte Wind Project, first called the Simmons Wind Project until ---- is a 57.6 MW wind farm comprised of 32 Vestas V-100 1.8 MW wind turbines and related facilities and equipment. The facility is located approximately 16 miles east of the City of Idaho Falls and commenced commercial operation in August 2012. The project provides UAMPS members with a long-term supply of renewable electric energy and associated environmental attributes.
Hunter II, part of the Hunter Station in Emery County, Utah, is a coal-fired, steam-electric generating unit with a net capacity of 446 megawatts. Hunter, jointly owned by PacifiCorp, Deseret Generation and Transmission Co-operative and UAMPS, has commercially operated since June 1980. UAMPS owns an undivided 14.582 percent interest in Unit II, representing 65 megawatts of capacity and energy.
Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) is a political subdivision of the state of Utah organized in 1977 by 23 Utah municipalities. IPA's Intermountain Power Project includes a two-unit, coal-fired, steam-electric generating station, with a net capacity of 1,800 megawatts. The generating station is located in Delta, Utah. UAMPS acts as a scheduling agent for those members who have called-back capacity and energy from the project pursuant to the Excess Power Sales Agreement.
Intermountain Power Project Unit 3 (IPP 3) is an extension of the IPP project. IPP Unit 3 project was created in 2005 to investigate installation of a third unit at the Intermountain Power generation station.
Member Generation Project is the integration of member-owned generation into the Pool for the benefit of the UAMPS members.
The Member Services Project addresses community needs. Through the project, a wider buying base is available for equipment purchases or special services that improve service for the members' customers. Services may include educational programs, material purchases and customer satisfaction surveys.
The Project was formed in 2008 to acquire economical supplies of natural gas as fuel for electric generation. Natural gas purchases may include spot, daily, monthly or short-term and prepaid transactions.
The Payson Project represents the Nebo Power Station, a 140-megawatt combined cycle gas-fired generating facility in Payson City, Utah. The facility began operating in June 2004. The facility includes a General Electric Frame 7EA gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator, a steam turbine, condensers and a cooling tower along with related 138 kV and 46 kV electric substations and transmission lines and gas pipelines.
The Pool Project provides an hourly resource clearinghouse where UAMPS acts as agent for the scheduling and dispatch of resources including the purchase of any resources and/or reserves required to meet each member's electric system load, the sale of any member's resources which are deemed surplus to meet its electric system load and the utilization of transmission rights to effect resource deliveries to, and sales by, each member.
Through the Resource Project, UAMPS conducts analyses and studies of new power supply and transmission projects. Additionally, through the project, UAMPS has developed its Smart Energy Efficiency Program, designed to lower energy demand and cut costs for both its members and the consumers they serve.
UAMPS acquired its 7.028 percent undivided ownership interest in Unit 4 of the San Juan Station in 1994. The San Juan Station, located northwest of Farmington, New Mexico, provides 35 megawatts of capacity and energy through a coal-fired, steam-electric generating plant. Unit 4, in commercial operation since 1979, is jointly owned by the Public Service Company of New Mexico, the city of Farmington, New Mexico, the county of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and UAMPS.
The Veyo Heat Recovery Project uses waste heat to power a 7.8 MW energy recovery generation system. The Project is located adjacent to the existing Veyo Compressor Station which is owned and operated by the Kern River Gas Transmission Company. The Project began commercial operation in May 2016.
Each year has two copies, except 1982/83 and 1984/85