6.1g ERMUSR 05-13-2025______________________________________________________________________________
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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO:
ERMU Commission
FROM:
Mike Tietz – Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE:
May 13, 2025
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
6.1g
SUBJECT:
Staff Update
ACTION REQUESTED:
None
DISCUSSION:
• In April, the locators processed 495 locate tickets. These consisted of 434 normal tickets,
1 emergency ticket, 37 updated tickets, 8 meets, 4 planning, 1 correction, and 10
cancellations. This resulted in a 133.5% increase in tickets from the previous month and
a 2.7% increase from the prior April.
• Electrical technicians completed 638 service order tasks, updated the power bill,
addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns.
• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure residential water and electric meters continue to
be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have been busy changing our
current Automated Meter Reading meters to AMI for small non-demand commercial
customers. Approximately 5,365 water meters and 11,981 electric meters are currently
active within our AMI system.
• Staff has begun changing out capacitor back controllers throughout our system. We are
replacing all seven over the next two weeks. These new controllers have communication
ability to help us monitor statuses remotely along with integration into our future
Conservation Voltage Reduction strategies.
• On April 30, staff completed a two-month long project of dehydrating and replacing oil
in Cooper/Eaton Switchgear with their being high moisture levels in the oil. We believe
this moisture is responsible for the faults we have experienced previously with these
units. Staff successfully reconditioned 47 units, documenting the final moisture content
of the reconditioned oil, pressure testing them for air leaks, and verifying the lid bolts
were torqued properly. While this project to recondition the oil was a success, it is only
a temporary fix as we work to replace these over the next few budget cycles.
• Our monthly peak was 43.42 MW on April 28, at 11:12am.
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