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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />December 12, 2023 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In November, the locators processed 424 locate tickets. These consisted of 334 normal <br />tickets, 5 emergency tickets, 39 updated tickets, 31 cancellations, 5 meets, 1 non - <br />excavation, and 71 boundary surveys. This resulted in an 8.6% decrease in tickets from <br />the previous month and is a 102.9% increase from the prior November. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 216 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters continue to be installed in new services and where we may have had an <br />existing meter failure. We have narrowed down the AMI endpoint installation proposals <br />to two vendors. We have scheduled interviews with them for December 15 and hope to <br />make a decision that day. We are still anticipating a start date of March 2024 for mass <br />deployment of meters. Integration with NISC has been starting to come together this <br />month and we are looking forward to starting our meter data management system <br />implementation in December. <br />• For the month of November, staff did not run generators. Engine #4 is still waiting on <br />plugs that are on backorder. <br />• Connexus Energy utilized their feeders out of our Waco and North substations for a <br />short time due to a transmission issue caused by a vehicle hitting a guy wire on a <br />transmission structure near Baldwin Township. We also experienced an interruption, <br />but Great River Energy was able to perform some emergency switching and restore <br />power to our substations in about 3 minutes. <br />• 1 attended Minnesota Power Systems Conference in St. Paul during the week of <br />November 6 which I found very informational. There was a wide range of topics covered <br />from supply chain updates, to small modular reactor technology, to electric vehicle <br />penetration in distribution systems. Thank you to the Commission for allowing me to <br />continue to attend this annual conference. <br />Page IofI <br />