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Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Troy Adams, P.E.—General Manager <br /> John Dietz—Chair <br /> Al Nadeau—Vice Chair <br /> Daryl Thompson—Trustee <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> November 18, 2014 6.1a <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Updates—General Manager <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Amendment language review is complete for the proposed Sprint 2.5 Upgrade which will <br /> increase attachments at the Gary Street, Auburn Street, and Johnson Street water towers. <br /> Amendments may be ready for approval as early as this November Commission meeting. <br /> Prior to approval, there is a temporary rent issue to be resolved for the Auburn Street <br /> water tower. <br /> • I attended the 50th Annual Minnesota Power Systems Conference(MIPSYCOM)on <br /> November 4-6 in Brooklyn Center. There were other municipal utility personnel in <br /> attendance from Shakopee, Willmar, Marshall, Central Minnesota Municipal Power <br /> Agency(CMMPA), Rochester, Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency <br /> (SMMPA), Moorhead, and Austin. I spoke with many people from Alliant,Xcel, Great <br /> River Energy, Connexus, and Dakota Energy about presentation and common industry <br /> topics. The conference is sponsored by the UofM and provides continuing educations <br /> credits required to sustain my professional engineering license. This year may have been <br /> the best one I've attended. There were more presentations from utility personnel <br /> regarding challenges they have overcome, or projects they have worked on. And there <br /> were fewer presentations by sales representatives highlighting new products. Some of <br /> the sessions of most interest were: <br /> o Emerging Issues and Trends as Viewed from Washington, D.C. <br /> o Applied Professional Ethics for Engineers <br /> o Determining the Capacity Impacts of Plug-In Electric Vehicles on Xcel Energy's <br /> Distribution System <br /> o Great River Energy Distributed Generation Pilot Program <br /> o Photovoltaics Outlook for Minnesota <br /> o Renewable Energy Lessons Learned by Dairyland Power Cooperative <br /> o Solar Valuation—Process for Determining Economic Value by Dakota Electric <br /> Association <br /> o A Panel Discussion of Revenue Metering, Arc Flash Hazards, and Mitigation <br /> o Power Quality Measurements from Smart Revenue Meters <br /> ■�R, POWERED 81 <br /> INA Page 1 of 3 NATURE <br /> Reliable Public <br /> Power Provider P O W E R E D T o S E R V E <br /> 86 <br />