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Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
FROM:
ERMU Commission
Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
January 14, 2025
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SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In December, locators processed 113 locate tickets. These consisted of 61 normal
tickets, 1 emergency ticket, 37 updated tickets, 3 meets, 4 boundary surveys, and 7 non -
excavations. This resulted in a 64.6% decrease in tickets from the previous month and a
24.7% decrease from the prior December. The ticket count for 2024 is down 12.6% from
2023's numbers.
• Electrical technicians completed 280 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• Staff has been researching how to meet the geospatial location requirements mandated
by state statute 261D.04, Subd. 3(h) for Locating Underground Facilities which goes into
effect on January 1, 2026, for all newly installed or abandoned facilities.
• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential
electric meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have
been busy changing our Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI around the system.
Approximately 4,150 water meters and 5,750 electric meters are currently active within
our AMI system.
• A manufacturer safety alert was issued for 30 of our reclosers that were built between
January 2023 and November 2024. We are working with our distributor on resolving this
issue as quickly as possible and have removed all affected equipment from service at
this time. This will delay our 2025 replacement project at North substation where we
were replacing all five recloser tanks and controllers.
• Connexus Energy continues to utilize their feeder tie point to Station 14 substation.
• Our monthly peak was 48.28 MW on December 11 at 5:42pm.
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