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TDPUD STAFF REPORT
April 8, 1998
To: Peter Holzmeister – General Manager
From: Stephen Hollabaugh – Power Supply Engineer
Subject: Monthly staff report – March 1998
AGENDA # 18
FERC & Transmission Issues: I have been spending a lot of time on the FERC case
with Spiegel and McDiarmid. Recently Sierra Pacific tried to take away the 4MW of
import capacity with a revision to the Network Transmission Service Agreement. FERC
ruled to reject this proposed amendment of Sierra’s. Therefore Sierra will still have to,
at a minimum, honor its earlier filed service agreement. I traveled to Washington D.C.
to attend a FERC meting concerning our case. We have started a settlement process
that might or might not result in a settlement.
NCPA – Risk Management Demonstration: I attended a risk management demonstra-
tion in Roseville at the NCPA office. This demonstration was from a company from the
Netherlands that has been operating this software in the European market. The meeting
was interesting and very informative.
Utility Design System Training: I attended a two-day training session here in Truckee
with a trainer from Gentry Systems. Gentry Systems is the company that we purchased
our work order costing system from called UDS. The attendees of the training were
Ron Reynolds, Joe Horvath, Bob Quinn and myself. The training consisted of a new
UDS upgrade and user training of the UDS system.
Power Supply Purchases: Truckee Donner PUD has been receiving the majority of its
energy from Idaho Power via the Midpoint interface to Sierra Pacific’s transmission
system. Idaho got out of the Valmy plant in February so we bought some energy from
Sierra Pacific when the transmission was constrained. The February prices for energy
from Idaho were 16.36 and 13.74 mills/Kwh for On-peak and Off peak respectively,
while the prices in March are estimated to be 20.53 and 17.29 mills/Kwh for On-Peak
and Off-Peak respectively. Attached is a spreadsheet that includes all of our yearly
power purchases through February. Below are the Mid-Columbia prices graphed for
February and March.
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Staff Report - March
Power Supply
Trend of Electricity Price for February 1998, Mid-Columbia Index
Trend of Electricity Price for March 1998, Mid-Columbia Index