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RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES <br />Board Memorandum <br />BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIESDATEMARCH 12, 2018 <br />GENERAL MANAGERS REPORT <br />ITEM NO:13 <br />SUBJECT: MONTHLY POWER SUPPLY REPORT – January, 2018 <br />Power Usage: <br />Wholesale Load (Vista): – 166,771MWH (Chart1) <br />Peak Demand: – 281MWof which 232 MW came from RVSD available resources (Chart2) <br />RVSD Energy Mix (Chart1): <br />ResourceMWH <br />a)Nuclear9,499 <br />b)Coal53,436 <br />c)Large Hydroelectric1,465 <br />d)Natural Gas7,994 <br />e)Renewables65,940 <br />f)Inter SC Trades- <br />g)Green Inter SC Trades400 <br />h)CAISO Purchases28,527 <br />Total:166,771 <br />Total Green Power Supply – 65,940 MWHwhich yields 39.25% of the Total Wholesale Load Requirement <br />Resource Availability: <br />Nuclear: Palo Verde units 1, 2 and 3 operated at 98.21% capacity factor for the month. <br />Coal: IPP units 1 and 2 operated at 52.43% capacity factor for the month. <br />Large Hydro: Hoover, RVSD’s capacity entitlement was 17 MW, with energy entitlement of 1,465MWH. <br />Natural Gas:Clearwater’s availability was 98.48% for the month. <br /> RERC’s (Units 1, 2, 3 and 4)availability was 95.94% for the month. <br /> Springs’s (Units 1,2, 3 and 4)availability was 99.83% for the month. <br />Renewable: Salton Sea units operated at 100.00% capacity factor for the month. <br />Vulcan unit operated at 94.71% capacity factor for the month. <br />Wintec operated at 9.06% capacityfactor. <br />WKN operated at 8.40%capacityfactor. <br />Transwind operated at 9.75% capacity factor. <br />Kingbird Solar operated at 19.93% capacity factor. <br />Tequesquite Solar operated at 15.42% capacity factor. <br />AP North Lake Solar operated at 17.24% capacity factor. <br />Camelot Solar2 operated at 16.45% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar3 operated at 19.89% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar7 operated at 17.26% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar1X operated at 19.82% capacity factor. <br /> <br />The attached graphical comparisons represents RPU’s January <br />Chart 1: Total Energy Requirements/Resource Mix <br />Chart2: Peak Hour TotalCapacity <br />Chart3: Retail Customer Load <br />Chart4: Daily Peak Load and TemperatureComparisons <br />Chart 5:MonthlyPeak Load and Temperature <br />Page 92 <br />