March
19, 2010
The Lincoln Electric System Administrative Board held its
regular monthly meeting March 19 at the Lincoln Electric Building. Items from
the meeting, as well as other pertinent information, include...
Capital improvements through 2016 to total $272.6 million
The Lincoln Electric System (LES) Administrative Board approved the $272.6
million Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for 2010-2016 that will be submitted
to the City as part of its budget.
Ron Kratzer, manager of System Planning, said the amount is up $81 million, or
42 percent, from last year’s report.
During that time, service will be extended to 10,800 new customers, while
increasing service to 1,200 customers. It is projected the number of customers
served by LES will be approximately 141,000, served by 828,000 kilowatts (kW).
In the next six years, LES will serve an estimated 64,000 kW of new electric
load, which is comparable to the load of a city the size of North Platte.
The following amounts are budgeted in the next six years:
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$31.2 million on transmission—down about $4 million from last year’s CIP.
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$40
million on substations—down $5.8 million.
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$75
million on overhead distribution—up $60 million.
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$72
million on underground distribution—down $1.4 million.
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$770,000 on distribution lines in Waverly—up $1,000.
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$561,000 on street lights—down $34,000.
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$46
million on Power Supply—up $27 million.
New
projects in this year’s CIP report are as follows:
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115kV line from 57th and Garland to 84th and Leighton.
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Expansion of substation at 17th and Holdrege.
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A
new substation at N.W. 56th and Morton.
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Renewable generation.
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Base load generation.
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Backup data center.
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Data center/backup control center.
The
CIP will be reviewed by Mayor Chris Beutler and the Capital Improvement
Advisory Committee. The final CIP will be sent to City Planning Dept. by April
6. The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing May 12 on the CIP.
LES is participating to attract Google high-speed fiber network to Lincoln
LES has joined with the City of Lincoln to land Google's high-speed Internet
experiment in Lincoln.
Mayor Chris Beutler announced Thursday that Lincoln was applying for the
Google Fiber for Communities. Google says it will choose one or more locations
across the United States to test broadband networks that will deliver Internet
speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have now, the
Lincoln Journal Star reported.
"This presents tremendous opportunities for economic development,
entertainment, entrepreneurship and education," Beutler said in a news
release. "Lincoln has the size, geography, diversity, existing fiber,
technology, partners and attitude to make Google's high-speed goals a
reality."
LES is part of a group of business and technology leaders that will work on
Lincoln's bid.
You are urged to visit
www.Lnkup.org to learn more about Lincoln’s efforts and join the City’s
Facebook page or contact Google directly. More information is also available
at
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/overview.
Lincoln has until March 26 to complete its application.
Other Reports
The following statistics for February were presented to the Board:
|
February 2010 |
February 2009 |
Change |
|
Number of Customers |
|
129,405 |
128,219 |
+1,186 |
|
12-Month Average Outage Time/Customer
(minutes) |
|
14.8 |
46.5 |
-31.7 |
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