HomeMy WebLinkAboutElectric Board - Minutes - 09/20/2006Fort Collins Utilities Electric Board Minutes
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Electric Board Chair City Council Liaison
John Morris 377-8221 Kurt Kastein
Electric Board Vice Chair Staff Liaison
Dan Bihn 218-1962 DeEtta Carr 221-6702
Roll Call:
Board Present
Chairperson John Morris, Vice -Chair Dan Bihn, Tom Bamish, John Harris, Jeff Lebesch, Alison
Mason and Steve Wolley
Staff Present:
Patti Bigner, Bill Bray, DeEtta Carr, Eric Dahlgren, Joyce Grenz, Sharon Held, Brian Janonis,
John Phelan, Tom Rock, Dennis Sumner, and Norm Weaver
Meeting Convened
Chairperson John Morris called the meeting to order at 5:34 p.m.
Citizen Participation
There was no public comment.
Approve Minutes of August 16, 2006 Meeting
Board member Dan Bihn made a motion, seconded by Board member Steve Wooley,to approve
the minutes of the August 16, 2006 meeting. The motion passed unanimously.
Integrated Resource Plan, Platte River Power Authoritv
John Bleem, Division Manager, Customer Services from Platte River Power Authority (PRPA)
gave a presentation on the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). PRPA, in coordination with its
member municipalities (Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland), has prepared the IRP.
An IRP provides information associated with the planning of resource acquisitions to meet
customers' future electrical energy needs, including capacity and energy supply resources,
renewable energy and energy efficiency options (referred to as demand side management or
DSM).
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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Platte River and the member municipalities plan to implement several action items related to
resource planning and acquisition, including:
Addition of a new GE7FA gas -fired peaking resource at the Rawhide site by the summer
of 2009.
Expansion of energy efficiency programs.
Continued implementation of the Renewable Energy Supply Policy.
Monitoring of developments in regional generation and transmission resources to ensure a
position in any new options of benefit to Platte River and its members.
Monitoring of changes in customer loads to support contingency planning.
Platte River's existing electrical generation resource portfolio includes
- A mix of hydropower (via federal contracts)
- Coal-fired generation (located at Rawhide and Craig stations)
- Natural gas turbines (four units at the Rawhide site)
- Wind turbines (located at the Medicine Bow Wind Project in Wyoming)
These resources, along with a small quantity of purchases from the wholesale market, are
adequate to meet the needs of Platte River's members for the next few years. However, given
Platte River's reserve and reliability requirements and considering load forecast variability and
market purchase limitations, a new resource is needed in 2009. Over the next five years, 2007
through 2011, Platte River plans to continue its current DSM programs (with some
modifications) and add to them. Future DSM programs will be prioritized based on their cost per
unit of energy saved, with the lowest cost programs implemented first.
2007 Work Plan
Chairperson John Morris asked if there were any items that needed to be added or retracted from
the 2007 Work Plan. The work plan for 2007 will be discussed in more depth at the next
meeting in October.
Other Business
There was a discussion about the impacts of annexation decisions on Utilities. It was suggested
that we discuss this at a future meeting.
Adiournment
Board member Alison Mason made a motion, seconded by Board member Tom Bamish to
adjourn. The motion passed unanimously and was adjourned at 7:15 p.m.
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