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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz — Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
February 13, 2024
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SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In January, the locators processed 93 locate tickets. These consisted of 70 normal
tickets, 5 emergency tickets, 9 updated tickets, 4 cancellations, 2 meets, 1 non -
excavation, and 2 boundary surveys. This resulted in a 38% decrease in tickets from the
previous month and is a 25.7% increase from the prior January.
• Electrical technicians completed 221 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure residential water meters and residential electric
meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have also
been actively exchanging all electric vehicle meters within the system along with any
other meters located at the same premises. I have been working with our consultant
and Allegiant Utility Services to complete our contract for endpoint installation. The
contract has been initially reviewed by our legal team and we are finalizing the
document to present to the Commission for approval at the February meeting. We are
looking at a kick-off meeting in February and initial meter deployment shortly after that.
The mass deployment of meters could begin as early as March if there are no issues
during the initial deployment. Integration with National Information Solutions
Cooperative continues to progress as expected. We have identified a few issues that we
are working through testing to find the best solution before we move into the mass
deployment stage.
• For the month of January, staff did not run generators.
• The substation apparatus technician assisted a contractor with the testing of Minnesota
Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) and ERMU's substation meters. MMPA is required by
Great River Energy to provide accuracy tests for these meters every five years to make
sure that billing allocations are being recorded correctly.
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