Laserfiche WebLink
RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES <br />Board Memorandum <br />BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIESDATE:DECEMBER 11, 2017 <br />GENERAL MANAGERS REPORT <br />ITEM NO:12 <br />SUBJECT: MONTHLY POWER SUPPLY REPORT – October,2017 <br />Power Usage: <br />Wholesale Load (Vista): – 198,228MWH (Chart1) <br />Peak Demand: – 465MWof which 440MW came from RVSD available resources (Chart2) <br />RVSD Energy Mix (Chart1): <br />ResourceMWH <br />a)Nuclear6,792 <br />b)Coal57,874 <br />c)Large Hydroelectric1,817 <br />d)Natural Gas14,067 <br />e)Renewables60,494 <br />f)Inter SC Trades61,800 <br />g)Green Inter SC Trades - <br />h)CAISO Purchases(4,616) <br />Total:198,228 <br />Total Green Power Supply – 60,494MWHwhich yields 30.52% of the Total Wholesale Load Requirement <br />Resource Availability: <br />Nuclear: Palo Verde units 1, 2 and 3 operated at 70.22% capacity factor for the month. <br />Coal: IPP units 1 and 2 operated at 56.78% capacity factor for the month. <br />Large Hydro: Hoover, RVSD’s capacity entitlement was 20 MW, with energy entitlement of 1,817MWH. <br />Natural Gas:Clearwater’s availability was 99.99% for the month. <br /> RERC’s (Units 1, 2, 3 and 4)availability was 99.57% for the month. <br /> Springs’s (Units1, 2, 3 and 4)availability was 100.00% for the month. <br />Renewable: Salton Sea units operated at 65.11% capacity factor for the month. <br />Vulcan unit operated at 80.85% capacity factor for the month. <br />Wintec operated at25.85%capacityfactor. <br />WKN operated at 25.36% capacityfactor. <br />Transwind operated at 18.62% capacity factor. <br />Kingbird Solar operated at 33.03% capacity factor. <br />Tequesquite Solar operated at 21.53% capacity factor. <br />AP North Lake Solar operated at 22.33% capacity factor. <br />Camelot Solar2 operated at 32.24% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar3 operated at 30.81% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar7 operated at 28.05% capacity factor. <br />Bigsky Solar1X operated at 31.42% capacity factor. <br /> <br />The attached graphical comparisons represents RPU’s October: <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 203 <br />