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Murray power leaders outline master plan, turbine upgrades and pipe repairs
Summary
Murray City’s Power Department presented a quarterly update July 1 describing a new five-year master plan, SCADA-based system modeling, upcoming rate-study work, turbine control upgrades pending an air-quality stack test, replacement fleet and building plans, and needed repairs to a five-mile hydro penstock and the Sandy siphon.
Murray City’s Power Department told council July 1 it is moving forward on a long-delayed master plan and several major infrastructure projects that officials say are essential to maintaining local generation and grid reliability.
Greg Ballant, the department’s presenter, said the city has never had a formal power-department master plan in his 17 years and is pursuing a five-year plan built on a system model. Ballant said staff considered an external modeling software (about $100,000) but opted to develop modeling within an upgraded SCADA platform, with the SCADA-based model expected to be available starting in September. "We never had a master plan for the power department ever," Ballant said.
Ballant described setbacks and next steps: the contracted engineer…
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