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��i <br />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 />August 13, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />In July, locators processed 412 locate tickets. These consisted of 347 normal tickets, 2 <br />emergency tickets, 39 updated tickets, 8 cancellations, 10 meets, 1 boundary survey, 2 <br />corrections, and 3 non -excavations. This resulted in a 3.7% decrease in tickets from the <br />previous month and a 30.9% decrease from the prior July. <br />Electrical technicians completed 513 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. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing out our Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI around the <br />system and recently completed the meter installations at several different apartment <br />buildings. The decision was made to discontinue TKDA's inspection services as of August <br />1. <br />• For the month of July, staff did not run generators at the power plant. <br />We received two bids for the East substation power transformer at the August 1 bid <br />opening. We received multiple quotes for the 115kV switch ranging from $12,047 to <br />$18,795 and will be ordering the Southern States ($17,963) unit. We also received two <br />quotes for the 115kV Circuit Breaker: Siemens for $114,200 and GE for $168,825. We <br />are ordering the Siemens unit. DGR is reviewing grading plans, and we expect to start <br />work on the site this fall. These are all budgeted project items for the East substation. <br />• Connexus Energy utilized their emergency feeder tie at our Waco, Bank 2 substation <br />from July 23 to 25. They experienced a fault on one of their reclosers at their Big Lake <br />substation that resulted in a fire. <br />• Our monthly peak was 69.97 MW on July 31 at 2:47pm. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />111 <br />