PUBLIC UTILITIES ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Receive Electric Operations Exceptions Reporting
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DEPARTMENT: Electric Utility
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Groth, Director of Electric Utilities
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide the Public Utility Advisory Board (PUAB) with a status update on Electric Operations Exceptions impacting the City of Naperville's Electric Utility.
DISCUSSION:
1. Fiber to the Home Installations
Naperville is experiencing a surge in fiber to the home installations as three contractors expand their offerings into the community. To manage the increased volume of utility locates and maintain compliance with state and federal laws, Electric Utility Operations evaluated several strategies to accommodate the considerable increase in JULIE locate requests with existing staff, including:
* Increasing internal staffing
* Outsourcing locates
* Allowing fiber companies to perform their own locates
Naperville staff are currently working on a legal framework that allows a fiber company to perform their own locates and in exchange holds the fiber company fully liable for infrastructure damage. The City will have the right to terminate the agreement for any reason including an increase in electric facility hits.
To increase transparency in outage reporting the Electric Utility is refining its reporting of outage metrics to specifically track third party strikes.
2. Transformer Movement (30XA/10XA/75 Spare)
Approximately 17 months ago, a critical substation transformer(30XA) failed because of a thorough fault. This fault caused an irreparable short on one of the windings leaving two replacement options direct replacement or utilization of a system spare transformer.
Due to the lead time of new transformers, the Utility determined that utilization of a system spare, and the movement of a second transformer, would return the system to normal configuration quicker. The Util...
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