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Independence Power & Light updates council on DKMT strategic-plan steps; staff recommends new utilities board and staffing hires
Summary
Joe Hegedeffer, director of Independence Power and Light, summarized progress on DKMT recommendations including finance hires, AMI planning, power-supply studies and a proposed Public Utilities Board to assume operational authority; staff will draft charter language for council consideration.
Joe Hegedeffer, director of Independence Power and Light (IPL), told the City Council the utility is implementing recommendations from a DKMT strategic plan with new staffing, technology and power-supply work aimed at improving service reliability, preparing for growth and keeping rates competitive.
Hegedeffer outlined staffing priorities the utility intends to fill: a finance manager (position posted), a finance analyst to support that manager and a utility data scientist to analyze operational and customer data. He summarized planned recurring financial work including annual updates to cost-of-service and financial models and said longer-term rate options, such as time-of-use pricing, would rely on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
On AMI, Hegedeffer said the utility is evaluating systems and explained the difference between AMR and AMI: AMR provides monthly radio reads while AMI supplies more…
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