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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Electric Board Chair City Council Liaison
John Morris 377-8221 Kurt Kastein
Electric Board Vice Chair Staff Liaison
Tracy Babst-Wiedenbrug 482-0108 DeEtta Can 221-6702
Roll Call:
Board Present
Chairperson John Morris, Tom Bamish, Dan Bihn, John Harris, Jeff Lebesch and Alison Mason
Absent:
Tracy Babst-Wiedenbrug
Staff Present:
Patty Bigner, Bill Bray, DeEtta Can, Bob Micek, John Phelan, Tom Rock and Mike Smith
Meeting Convened
Chairperson John Morris called the meeting to order at 5:46 p.m.
Citizen Participation
There was no public comment. The Board discussed the two letters received from citizens
regarding residential/business photovoltaic energy production incentives. Staff will contact the
citizens as a follow up.
Approve Minutes of February 15, 2006 Meetin¢
Board member John Harris made a motion, seconded by Board member Alison Mason to
approve the minutes of the February 15, 2006 meeting. The motion passed unanimously.
Update of the Electric Enern Supply Policy
John Phelan, Interim Lead Energy Services Engineer gave an update on the Energy Policy. The
Policy addresses reliability, rates and the environment. The target is to reduce per capita energy
consumption 10 percent, reduce per capita peak demand 15 percent by 2012 and increase
renewable energy to 15 percent by 2017.
Electric Board Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2005
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Utilities continued to provide very highly reliable electric service, with an overall electric system
reliability was 99.9971%. The undergrounding program is 99.6 percent complete as of the end of
2005. There were 375 overhead services converted to underground last year and 197 scheduled
for 2006.
Rates increased in 2005, an average of 4.35 percent, as a result of increased wholesale power
costs from Platte River Power Authority (PRPA). However, as of January 2006, Fort Collins
Utilities electric rates are lower than those of Xcel Energy in all rate classes.
2005 Demand Side Management (DSM) highlights include:
• Demand Side Management (DSM) energy savings from 2005 programs were more than
double that of 2004. The impact of 2005 energy efficiency programs is an annual avoided
electricity consumption of over 8,700 megawatt -hours, or 0.6% of Fort Collins Utilities
2005 purchased electricity;
• DSM programs in 2005 saved energy at a cost of one cent per kilowatt-hour (kWh),
compared with a 3.7 cents per kWh total wholesale cost from Platte River;
• A new Residential Lighting Program was designed and implemented in 2005, which
resulted in the sale of over 70,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs through local retailers;
• Annual energy savings in 2006 resulting from energy efficiency program activities from
2002 through 2005 is over 16,100 megawatt -hours;
• Annual peak demand savings in 2006 resulting from energy efficiency program activities
from 2002 through 2005 is over 3.2 megawatts; and
• 2005 per capita electric consumption dropped 3.6% from the 2002 baseline; per capita
peak electric demand increased 5.0% from the 2002 baseline.
2005 Renewable Energy highlights include:
• Renewable energy comprised 2.2 percent of total electrical energy purchases in 2005.
Renewable energy purchases were 31,499 megawatt -hours (Figure 5.1);
The Wind Program facilitated the purchase of over 24,000 megawatt -hours of electricity,
a 35 percent increase over 2004 (Figure 5.2);
• The Wind Program has over 1200 residential customers and over 70 commercial
customers.
Demand Side Management (DSM) plans for 2006 are:
• Continue on -going DSM programs
• Expand technical assistance to facilitate Electric Energy Supply Policy (EEP)
• Simplified lighting application process for EEP
• Redesign Integrated Design Assistance Program
• Revised cooling rebate program (PRPA)
• Expand residential lighting program for Fall, 2006
• Plan residential cooling program for 2007
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April 19, 2005
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Election of Officers
Board member Tracy Babst-Wiedenbrug was deployed as of April 17 for 520 days and regrets
that she had to resign as a Board member and Vice -Chair. Boardmember Alison Mason made a
motion seconded by Tom Barnish to nominate Dan Bihn as the new Vice -Chair. The motion
passed unanimously.
Other Business
Board member Alison Mason gave a brief summary on the Net Metering convention held on
Wednesday, February 22. Intention of the convention was to get as many Colorado Utilities to
hear about net metering and Amendment 37.
Adiournment
Board member Dan Bihn made a motion, seconded by Board member Tom Barnish to adjourn.
The motion passed unanimously and was adjourned at 7:16 p.m.
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DeEtta Carr, Electric Board Liaison
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