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From:Shanna Kuhlemier
Sent:Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:21 PM
To:Allison Spani
Subject:FW: Micro Grid: public comment for July 7 meeting
Shanna D. Kuhlemier, CMC
District Clerk/Assistant to the General Manager
11570 Donner Pass Road
Truckee, CA 96161
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From: Billy Griffin [mailto:billy@newmoonnaturalfoods.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 3:56 PM
To: Shanna Kuhlemier
Subject: Micro Grid: public comment for July 7 meeting
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Dear TDPUD Board,
As a local business, we are very concerned about the prospect of losing power this summer/fall due to wildfire
prevention outages, not just for our livelihoods, but fir the community as well.
New Moon Natural Foods is a grocery store carrying perishable provisions for our community. The Truckee
community relies on us for over $1M of food sales per month. Especially is a situation where residents may not
have refrigeration, its all the more important that the local grocery stores be able to provide daily shopping
needs. If we (and the other grocery stores along DPR) are closed, not only will the community have limited
access to food during the outage, but it will take an extra day or more to restock. Furthermore, with everyone
trying to restock their homes at once, supply/demand imbalances will be created that will resonate through the
community for weeks before finally rebalancing.
Our business has been trying for 18 months to procure our own generators, but Covid supply problems and the
Texas debacle have made large-scale independent power generation difficult to obtain.
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Our community needs open grocery stores (and restaurants and hospital, etc). Please do what you must to
implement a micro-grid for Truckee, ASAP.
Thanks you for your hard work and consideration in these difficult times.
Sincerely,
The owners, management and employees of
New Moon Natural Foods