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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Troy Adams, P.E.—General Manager MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: July 10, 2018 6.1a SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • The Board of Directors of the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency(MMPA) met on June 28, 2018 at the offices of Shakopee Public Utilities. Commissioner Al Nadeau was not able to attend this meeting. The Board received an update on the Agency's Integrated Resource Plan, which is scheduled to be filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on August 1. MMPA's Hometown Solar installations in Arlington and Shakopee are installed and operating at educational facilities. The Agency gave a presentation about its energy education program at the American Public Power Association's National Conference on June 19. The presentation was well attended and sparked much discussion with municipal utilities and joint action agencies across the country. Participation in MMPA's residential Clean Energy Choice program increased over May, with four different MMPA members having new customer signups during the month. Customer penetration of MMPA's Clean Energy Choice program for residential customers is at 2.8%. A representative from MMPA will be presenting to the Elk River Rotary on July 12 regarding the Clean Energy Choice program. Staff has met with representatives of MMPA regarding the implementation of this program. • The small workgroup of the joint ERMU/city Information Security Committee continues to work weekly with our cyber security consultant, FRSecure, conducting weekly webinar meetings to develop physical and cyber security policy. This policy development prep work is almost complete. The full committee will reconvene to review this work product and bring back a report to the commission in the next few months. Page 1 of 2 102