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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Mike Tietz – Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />March11, 2025 6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In February, the locators processed 111 locate tickets. These consisted of 82 normal <br />tickets, 7 emergency tickets, 18 updated tickets, 1 meet, 1 planning, and 2 cancellations. <br />This resulted in an 8.3% decrease in tickets from the previous month and a 0.9% <br />increase from the prior February. <br />• Staff continues to research the GPS solutions from locating equipment vendors. The <br />locators are currently demoing the Subsite unit from Ditch Witch. We will also plan on <br />demoing the unit from Radio Detection when it becomes available. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 98 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 for off-peak <br />around the system. Approximately 5000 water meters and 9000 electric meters are <br />currently active within our AMI system. <br />• Staff have successfully completed oil replacement/dehydration on seven switchgears so <br />far utilizing the trailer-mounted oil collection system. Contaminated oil is reconditioned <br />overnight and then used in another switchgear the next day. Tests of oil in completed <br />units shows the moisture levels returning to acceptable levels. We are looking at <br />extending the timeframe on this project to recondition the oil on as many switchgear as <br />possible by the end of March. <br />• Our monthly peak was 49.45 MW on February 17 at 12:04pm. <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />150 <br /> <br />