110 Misc. 2d 943 - Auer v. Dyson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “To develop, maintain, manage and operate those parts of the Niagara and Saint Lawrence hydroelectric projects owned or controlled by it ... that in the development of hydroelectric power therefrom such projects shall be considered primarily as for the benefit of the people of the state as a whole and particularly the domestic and rural consumers to whom the power can economically be made available, and accordingly that sale to and use by industry shall be a secondary purpose, to be utilized principally to secure a sufficiently high load factor and revenue returns to permit domestic and rural use at the lowest possible rates____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Occidental Chemical Corp. v. Power Authority