6.1b ERMUSR 03-12-2024�i
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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Sara Youngs —Administrations Director
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
March 12, 2024
6.1b
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• Office walk-in traffic for February consisted of 161 customers, averaging 31 customers
per week over the 5-week period.
• ERMU red tag notification count for February under the Cold Weather Rule.
o Cycle 3 — 21 red tag notifications.
o Cycle 4-0 red tag notifications due to testing of Advanced Metering
Infrastructure (AMI).
o Cycle 1— 29 red tag notifications.
o Cycle 2 —11 red tag notifications and 1 disconnection.
• During the month of February 2024, the customer service team entered 39 payment
arrangements with customers. During February 2023 there were 45 payment
arrangements.
• Currently there are 7 active residential solar photovoltaic projects planned or under
construction in the ERMU service territory.
• In the last 30 days, combined the level two charger located downtown and in the
parking lot in front of ERMU had 19 sessions and provided customers with 585 kWh of
green energy.
• The annual Utility Distributed Generation Interconnection has been filed with the
Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. Minnesota Statute 21613.1611 requires every
electric utility to file all distributed energy resource systems interconnected, withdrawn,
decommissioned, and in active application.
• The AMI team continues to meet weekly with National Information Solutions
Cooperative and Core & Main to work through, test, and implement new processes and
procedures.
• Starting with the disconnection date of February 28, 2024, customers that have the AMI
electric meter installed on their residence will be disconnected and reconnected
remotely.
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• The communications & administrative coordinator and I will be attending Minnesota
Municipal Power Agency's Energy Education Program at Meadowvale Elementary School
on March 15, 2024.
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