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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Chris Kerzman — Engineering Manager <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />May 9, 2023 <br />6.1i <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• The Information Security Committee will hold a meeting on May 9, prior to the <br />commission meeting. Staff expects to provide a verbal update at the commission <br />meeting. <br />• The final amount submitted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Grid <br />Resilience and Innovation Partnerships grant was $1,179,592. We expect to hear back if <br />our projects were awarded duringthe fourth quarter of this year. <br />• We have been receiving a few calls from commercial solar installers on our policies. I <br />have spent a bit of time getting up to speed on the regulations and attended a <br />distributed energy resources summit hosted by Star Energy Services on May 3 that was <br />very helpful to understanding the application and interconnection process. <br />• Staff continues to work with DGR Engineering to assemble a bid package for the <br />transformer supply and delivery to replace the Otsego substation transformer. Staff <br />anticipates awarding bids at the July regular commission meeting. <br />Page IofI <br />183 <br />