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Elk River �. Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Tom Sagstetter- Conservation and Key Accounts John Dietz—Chair Manager Al Nadeau—Vice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: February 11, 2014 6.1f SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: • Completed the asset transfer of the 3 replacement engines at the gas to electric plant at the Elk River Landfill. • As part of the expansion of the landfill gas to electric plant, ERMU has had discussions with City Staff as well as Waste Management on ways to handle and dispose of leachate. Leachate is water that has come in contact with municipal solid waste. There are a number of options for handling the leachate, but if evaporation is determined to be the best option the existing excess methane that would be used to power additional electric generation would be used to evaporate water. If evaporation is the option there will not be enough excess methane to make the gas plant expansion feasible. • Attended the I-94 West State of The Cities Chamber of Commerce event and learned that many communities are starting to see consistent and significant growth. Rogers and Otsego both added over 130 new homes and are looking at the same if not more growth. Rogers is looking at adding between 500,000— 1,000,000 sq. ft. of industrial/distribution space in 2014. Otsego has a project where they will add approximately 300,000 of warehouse space. The other communities that were part of the presentation that are showing continuing signs of growth are St. Michael, Albertville, Dayton, Hanover, and Corcoran. • Participated in Hockey Day Minnesota representing ERMU in the Incident Command Center training exercise. It was a helpful experience that will be beneficial if and when we actually need to mobilize in the event of a true emergency. • There are many questions on rebates. Everyone has new budgets at the beginning of the year and the vendors are out knocking on doors for new business. LED lights are the hot item at this point. • Based on the very cold weather there are many customers calling about high use and high bills. The CSRs are doing a great job of explaining what causes high bills. With the price of propane and shortage there have been many calls about the benefits of the dual fuel program. In Page 1 of 1 'WIRED 11 NATURE Reliable rovider P OWfREO TO SfRVE 203 •