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Using the distribution between residential and industrial customers 

 among the three classes of distributors as weights to apply to the 

 federal sales to these distributors, we get an idea of the distribution 

 of federally developed energy between sales for final consumption 

 and sales of energy to be used as factor services in commercial 

 operations. This is shown in Table 48, 



TABLE 48. Per Cent Distribution of Kilowatt Hours Sold from 

 Federal Power Development by 

 Bonneville Power Administration 



Per cent distribution 

 between final uses 



Wholesale Per cent of 



customers total Factor 



of BPA purchased Consumption service* 



Municipalities 18.27 10.47 6.69 



Public utility districts 15.21 8.00 6.46 



Co-operatives » 4.01 4.01 — 



Private utilities 34.38 15.23 17.60 



Federal agencies 5.79 — 5.79 



Electro-process firms 22.34 — 22.34 



Total distribution by end-uses . 37.71 58.88 



' For the sake of convenience, we have assumed that all of the deliveries to 

 rural electric co-operatives end up as final consumption; even though we recog- 

 nize that some of this energy must be used as a factor input in commercial 

 farming. 



What now can be said regarding the distribution of gains from 

 the development of our hypothetical Willamette River hydroelectric 

 site? Table 48 shows that the distribution of power from a federally 

 developed source favors factor services over final consumption by a 

 considerable margin — about 59 per cent compared to 38 per cent. 

 This is accounted for only partially by the priority given to federal 

 agencies in the distribution of federally developed hydroelectricity. 

 To a much greater extent, the use of energy for production, rather 

 than final consumption, is accounted for by the provision of energy 

 directly to electro-process industries. These industries receive 

 close to 40 per cent of the total allocated to customers which use 

 the energy as a factor input. 



The fact that distribution of federally developed power favors 



