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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Tom Sagstetter – Conservation & Key Accounts Manager <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />November9, 2021 6.1e <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> In the last 30 days, the level two electric vehicle charger located downtown had 11 <br />sessions and provided customers with 54 kWh. The DC fast charger at the Coborn’s fuel <br />station had 44sessions and provided576kWh. The charger in the ERMU/City Hall <br />parking lot had15sessions and provided customers with 214kWh. There was a totalof <br />70 charging sessions and844 kWh of green energy provided over the last 30days. <br />ERMU staff continues to explore options for the operation of the landfill gas-to-electric <br />generation facility after the contract end date in October 2022. <br /> The Downtown Elk River Business Association is interested in purchasing winter <br />decorations for the light poles downtown. ERMU staff has been working with the City of <br />Elk River to determine the cost of installing them and the specifications for any <br />decorations installed on ERMU poles. <br /> The communications coordinator and I attended the American Public Power <br />Association’s (APPA) Customer Connections Conference in Scottsdale Arizona, October <br />24-27. ERMU received an Excellence in Public Power Communications Award for a short <br />video and was again recognized as a Smart Energy Provider. In addition to receiving the <br />award and designation, staff attended many great informational sessions covering <br />topics such as: communicating in a crisis, prepay metering, whole home efficiency <br />programs, bill financing for efficiency, understanding the impacts of electric <br />transportation, and the lessons learned from the polar vortex in Texas. I also had the <br />pleasure of presenting to participants in the key accounts track onworking with <br />commercial customers with power quality concerns. <br /> I attended a Minnesota Department of Commerce (MN DOC) virtual session on the <br />Energy Conservation & Optimization Act. The MN DOC is still developing the criteria for <br />cost-effectiveness calculations and determining how to incorporate fuel-switching and <br />transportation energy intothe energy savings goals. Each customer-owned utility must <br />file a plan by June 1, 2022 describing the programs to achieve the energy savings <br />equivalent of 1.5% of energy sales. <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />106 <br />