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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Tom Sagstetter—Conservation&Key Accounts Manager MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: September 12, 2017 6.1f SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • The EV/ER Power Your Future Event and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is being held tomorrow(September 13) from 6 to 8 p.m. Staff has been working on sending out flyers, scheduling test drives, organizing display vehicles,working with Prime Advertising to promote the event through Facebook and other social media platforms. There are nine demonstration vehicles registered for the event and 3 registered to test drive. Cornerstone Automotive is organizing the test drives. ERMU is anticipating more individuals will sign up for test drives at the event. Staff has also been working with outside organizations to promote the event that include but are not limited to; Great Plains Institute, Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTS),National Drive Electric Week organizers, and PlugShare Minnesota. • Our EV Event and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was highlighted in a national article featured in the Huffington Post. Attached is a copy of the article or you can click here to view it. • We have submitted the final documents for the Wright Hennepin and ERMU service territory boundary changes. The Minnesota Department of Commerce (DOC) has recommended approval of the boundary change. The item is set for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC)review and decision on September 14. There have been no issues raised and the expectation is MPUC will accept the recommendation of the DOC. • The cycled air conditioning transition has begun. All existing customers were mailed a letter and WIFI thermostat rebate application form. Customers have had some general questions about the changes, but overall there haven't been many challenges. • All communications have been sent to the Connexus Energy customers that will be transferring. The final letter notified them that they would experience up to a 60 minute outage on September 19 between 9 and 10 a.m. The call volume has not been as high this year as past years. There have been a few residential customers that have special programs that have needed some assistance in understanding the transition and the impacts to them. • Working with Energy City to upgrade some metering that will help them implement a new energy tracking tool that is being utilized by our sister city Iserlohn in Germany. • We have ended the commercial rebate program for 2017. We will begin the commercial rebate program in 2018 for equipment that was purchased and installed in 2018. The Page 1 of 2 96