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April ~, 2010 To: Elk River 1Vlunicipal Utilities Commission John Dietz Jerry Gumphrey Daryl Thompson From: Troy Adams Subject: Review and Consider wholesale Power Supply options At the March 9th Utilities Commission meeting, the commission gave authorization to further explore resource planning opportunities through a power supply coalition being organized by Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency CMMPA}. The informational kickoff meeting was held at CMMPA's offices In Blue Earth, MN on April nth, At this meeting there were representa~Ives from CMMPA, two other municipal utilities, another public paver joint action agency representing approximately 15 municipal utilities, and a representative for three small investor owned utilities IOU}. CMMPA Is a public power joint action agency representing 12 municipal utilities and was one of the primary participants in the Big Stone II ~BSI~} power plant project. There are additional utilities that have some degree of interest that may join the coalition that were not represented at this meeting. At the time of this meeting, there was no commitment from any of the groups to participate, but rather gather information to take back to their governing bodies, The utilities represented at this meeting account for approximately 650Mw of peak load. The idea behind the coalition is to combine planning and resource efforts with other utilities having similar needs in an effort to lower overall Individual costs. Each of these groups has some future power supply need to address. ERMU's all requirements contract with Connexus Energy is terminated in 2~1 ~. This Is the latest of the deadlines out of the others Involved. The 1DUs have existing contracts that will expire in a few years. The other independently represented municipal utilities' deadlines fall in between ERMU's and the IOU's. The coalition would be governed by a coordinating committee made up of representatives from the participants. The decisions affecting the coalition would be made by those voting coordinating committee members and not solely by CMMPA.