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Coldwater presentation quantifies municipal utility's local economic and reliability benefits
Summary
Utility leadership presented data on Coldwater's municipal utility assets, reliability metrics, budgets and community contributions, highlighting rate savings, local employment and upcoming water and wastewater projects including a DWSRF-funded lead-service-line effort.
Rudy Veil, director of Coldwater's Board of Public Utilities, presented a "Value to the Citizens of Coldwater" briefing, outlining the utility's electric, water, wastewater and telecommunications assets and quantifying financial and reliability benefits of local public power.
Veil said Coldwater's electric system includes multiple transmission and distribution substations, local diesel and natural-gas generation (including recent Caterpillar/CAP units), a 1.8-megawatt solar field and a peak load near 105 megawatts. He said the…
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