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• The landfill expansion is beginning to look more promising. I have had frequent discussions with Waste Management and it appears that the expansion is gaining momentum internally. I am also exploring the addition of combined heat and power (CHP) for electric generation at the facility. The technology would use the waste heat from the engines to boil water to make steam and turn a secondary generator to create electricity. This seems to be very popular with policy makers and could increase production from the existing and new engines. • Energy City tours have been popular. Provided a landfill tour to GRACO and will be giving a tour of the GRE processing and power plant this week. The GRACO tour had 10 engineers that were primarily interested in the operations of the landfill and power plant(specifically pumps and motors). The tour of the processing facility and power plant will be for 35 individuals from Spectrum High School. The class is interested in environmental issues and how technology helps improve the environment. • Billing corrections to Demand Billed customers. The October bills were calculated using an upgraded version of Power Manager. The upgraded software had two unintended changes when applied to the ERMU version of Power Manager. First,the Demand Billed(rate class 15) customers saw an additional line added to their bill that was labeled"Low Load Factor Credit 5". This line rounded the total energy bill up to next whole dollar. The second unintended change was increasing the sales tax charged on the same Demand Billed customers. The only billing errors discovered at this point have been to the Demand Billed customer class and staff is spot checking all rate classes to ensure no other additional charges have occurred with the software upgrade. ATTACHMENTS: • Article: "LES Gas-To-Energy Plant Goes On-Line Nov. 1" Page 2 of 2 IIIIEREI 11 NATURE Reliable Public Power Provider POWERED To SFRVE 130 • •