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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 />October 8, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />In September, locators processed 544 locate tickets. These consisted of 448 normal <br />tickets, 10 emergency tickets, 53 updated tickets, 12 cancellations, 7 meets, 5 boundary <br />surveys, 3 corrections, and 6 non -excavations. This resulted in a 23.9% increase in <br />tickets from the previous month and a 0.4% increase from the prior September. <br />Electrical technicians completed 450 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. Approximately 2,500 water meters and 1,600 electric meters are currently <br />active within our AMI system. <br />• For the month of September, staff did not run generators at the power plant. We will no <br />longer plan on running generators going forward based on the Commission's decision to <br />move forward with the decommissioning of the power plant. <br />• Staff will begin grading the East substation site the week of October 7. Sitework should <br />take approximately three weeks to complete. <br />• We have received 14 of the 26 NOVA reclosers that were ordered from the awarded bid <br />in April. This is a bit of a surprise as we were not expecting these until Q1 of 2025. This <br />should allow us to get a few more projects completed in 2024. <br />• Our monthly peak was 65.86 MW on September 16, at 3:41pm. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />