HomeMy WebLinkAbout15 Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems Power Presentation AGENDA ITEM #15
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Public Utility District
MEETING DATE: September 6, 2023
TO: Board of Directors
FROM: Joe Horvath, Assistant General Manager/ Electric Utility Director
SUBJECT: Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) Power
presentation
APPROVED BY:
Brian C. Wright, General Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Receive this workshop item and provide strategic feedback and direction to staff
regarding the power supply portfolio.
BACKGROUND:
The Truckee Donner Public Utility is preparing a series of Board meeting workshops
over the coming months to learn about TDPUD's existing electric resources, current
opportunities, and emerging technologies. As Truckee's not-for-profit, community-
owned, and locally governed electric utility, TDPUD's mission exists to serve the needs
of our customers. What our customers demand drives the costs, reliability, and
environmental performance of our energy services. When it comes to using electricity,
the day of the year and the time of each day is of significant importance when it comes
to the availability of clean resources and the overall cost of electricity.
One powerful tool utilities use to plan for the communities' energy future is Integrated
Resources Planning (IRP). IRP starts with existing customer demand — by day and hour
for each day of the year— and seeks the most cost-effective way to meet demand while
optimizing clean resources and reliability. On the customer demand side, utilities can
partner with their customers to conserve energy and reduce usage during peak times
when electricity is the most expensive and the availability of clean resources is
constrained.
Once an electric utility's demand profile is known and optimized, electric utilities will
seek electric resources to meet customer needs. Balancing affordability, reliability, and
environmental performance have been key priorities and IRP's are great tools to help
accomplish these goals and meet ever increasing environmental compliance
requirements. For TDPUD, which is a winter, weekend, and nighttime peaking utility,
already achieving over 60% renewable/clean resources and is approaching 100%
during the day, the challenge going forward is to find clean, affordable baseload energy
sources to account for the gaps associated with intermittent (solar/wind) generation
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sources.
TDPUD's new IRP is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year and will provide
insights on how best to manage both the demand side and generation resource side of
the electric utility equation. This series of Board meeting workshops provides an
opportunity to learn about electric resources, the realities of needing to schedule
electric resources to match load, and the potential projects and opportunities TDPUD
may choose to pursue in the future.
TDPUD's current electric resources include wind, solar, hydroelectric, landfill gas, heat
recovery, and natural gas. Electric resources that are either in development or which
could be available within a relatively short period of time include geothermal, wind,
solar, battery storage, biomass, natural gas, and new nuclear. Emerging technologies
include new nuclear, hydrogen, and various energy storage innovations.
ANALYSIS AND BODY:
The first in this series of TDPUD Board meeting workshops will cover the new nuclear
project being led by the Utah Associated Municipal Utilities Association (UAMPS)
working in partnership with the United States Department of Energy and NuScale
Power. This project offers the potential of carbon-free, dispatchable power generation
that could be available as a baseload energy source (available during the day or night).
This informational workshop will include leadership from UAMPS, NuScale Power, and
other key project partners including:
• George Griffin, Relationship Manager, Idaho National Laboratory
• Chuck Goodnight, Vice-President, Sales
• Mason Baker, Chief Executive Officer, UAMPS.
TDPUD was an early participant in the NuScale Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP).
However, in 2017, the Board made a decision to separate from the project, finding it to
be out of alignment with the District's energy procurement strategies based upon the
available information at the time. New nuclear technology continues to evolve and
available energy markets have changed dramatically since then. This workshop is
intended to shed light on the evolution of some of these technologies, the status of the
project and the opportunities available to UAMPS members.
Future Board meeting workshops will cover traditional renewable resources (solar,
wind, and hydro), traditional base-load resources (geothermal, landfill gas, heat
recovery, and natural gas), and other emerging technologies.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
District Code 1 .05.020 Objectives:
1. Responsibly serve the public.
2. Provide a healthy and safe work environment for all District employees.
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3. Provide reliable and high quality water supply and distribution system to meet
current and future needs.
4. Provide reliable and high quality electric supply and distribution system to meet
current and future needs.
5. Manage the District in an environmentally sound manner.
6. Manage the District in an effective, efficient and fiscally responsible manner.
District Code 1.05.030 Goals:
1. Manage for Financial Stability and Resiliency
2. Environmental Stewardship: Create a sustainable resilient environment for all our
communities.
3. Engage with our customers and communities in a welcoming and transparent way to
identify opportunities.
4. Take the best of private sector thinking to modernize the utility and add value to our
communities.
5. Developing an inclusive culture drives organizational integration and success.
FISCAL IMPACT:
ATTACHMENTS:
None
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