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City presents electric utility overview; staff recommends continued local generation investment
Summary
The city provided a strategic overview of its electric utility — describing 18 MW of peaking generation, three substations, over 100 miles of distribution lines and a need for continued investment in poles, transformers and redundancy to improve reliability.
City staff presented a strategic overview of Ottawa’s electric utility operations, emphasizing the role of local generation in limiting outage durations and recommending continued investment in local generation and distribution infrastructure.
The presentation outlined that the city operates about 18 megawatts of peaking generation capacity, four generation units (two older units from the late 1950s–1960 and two larger units installed in 1980), and a solar array installed in February 2016. Staff said the city’s peaking units provided the ability to restore power more rapidly during recent extended outages that originated on Evergy’s transmission lines.
Staff also described…
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