CITY OF LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT What is Public Power Town Hall Meetings.

CITY OF LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA

UTILITIES DEPARTMENT

What is Public Power

Town Hall Meetings

Number of Electric Utilities in 2008

Investor Owned; 217

Publicly Owned;

2010

Federal; 9

Coopera-tive; 882

Distribution of Customers in 2008

Investor Owned;

73%

Publicly Owned;

15%

Cooperative; 12%

Florida Market ShareFlorida Munici-pal Elec-tric Utili-

ties14%

Florida Electric

Coopera-tives10%

Tampa Electric

7%

Gulf Power

4%Florida Power

and Light48%

Progress Energy Florida

17%

The Benefits of Public Power

Local Control Over Utility Policies:• Public power is about serving the local

community. • Decisions about the pricing of services,

building power plants, purchasing wholesale power and setting service policies are made locally for the benefit of the community.

• Public power operates in the sunshine, subject to open meetings and public record laws.


Reliable Power:• PA Consulting Group’s annual reliability study calculates

the SAIDI index for investor owned utilities and for public power and cooperatives combined.

• SAIDI – the System Average Interruptible Duration Index – measures the average length of time, in minutes, each customer can expect to be without power during a year.

• The study consistently shows that customers of consumer owned utilities are without power less than half as many minutes each year as are customers of investor owned utilities.


Local Economic Development:• A public power utility spurs economic development

in the community by meeting the interrelated needs of residential, business and industrial customers, thereby making the community a more pleasant place to live and allowing it to compete more successfully in attracting business and employment.

• Public power utilities are able to focus on the overall needs of the communities and provide efficiencies in achieving the overall community goals.

Electric Utilities’ Philosophy PUBLIC PRIVATE COOPERATIVE

LOCALLY OWNED P PCONSUMER OWNED P PCONSUMER GOVERNED P PPROFIT TO: STOCKHOLDERS P

MEMBERS PCOMMUNITY P

COLLECT & PAY TAXES P P POPEN MEETINGS, RECORDS PPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY P P

Florida’s Public Electric Utilities

ALACHUANEWBURRY

CHATTAHOOCHEEHAVANA

QUINCY TALLAHASSEEBLOUNTSTOWN

STARKE

WILLISTON

LEESBURG

JACKSONVILLE

KEY WEST

HOMESTEAD

LAKE WORTH

JACKSONVILLE BEACH

GREEN COVE SPRINGS

GAINESVILLE

OCALA NEW SMYRNA BEACH

WINTER PARKMT DORA

ORLANDOKISSIMMEE

ST CLOUD

BUSHNELL

LAKELANDBARTOW

FT MEADEWAUCHULA VERO BEACH

FT PIERCE

CLEWISTONMOORE HAVEN

U.S. Electric Utilities

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

PUBLICLY OWNED 9.9 ¢ 9.2 ¢ 6.7 ¢

COOPERATIVE 10.3 ¢ 9.6 ¢ 6.6 ¢

PRIVATE 11.4 ¢ 10.1 ¢ 6.3 ¢

2008 Rates/kWh*

* Revenue/kWh, Based on U.S. Department of Energy Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, 2008

Florida Electric Utilities

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

PUBLICLY OWNED 12.0 ¢ 10.6 ¢ 8.2 ¢

COOPERATIVE 11.4 ¢ 10.0 ¢ 8.2 ¢

PRIVATE 11.6 ¢ 10.0 ¢ 8.2 ¢

FPL 11.7 ¢ 10.4 ¢ 8.7 ¢

2008 Rates/kWh*


Florida Electric Utilities

All Rates Averaged (Res, Com, Ind)

PUBLICLY OWNED 10.8 ¢

COOPERATIVE 10.9 ¢

PRIVATE 10.7 ¢

FPL 11.0 ¢

2008 Rates/kWh*


FMEA Rate ChartJuly 2010

FPL = $97.52

*http://www.publicpower.com/pdf/rates/2008/2010_december_rates-c.pdf

Reliability

There are a number of Power Distribution Reliability Indices that we use to monitor our performance. These include:

• SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) Indicates the total duration of interruption for the average customer during a predefined period of time. It is commonly measured in customer minutes or customer hours of interruption.

Source: Florida Public Service Commission, Florida Municipal Power Agency Reliability Project

SAIDI =Total Minutes of All Interruptions

Total Number of Customers Served

MUNIC LW FPL TECO PROG GULF FPUC0

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System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI)

Reliability

There are a number of Power Distribution Reliability Indices that we use to monitor our performance. These include:

• L-BAR (Average Length of a Service Interruption) Indicates the average length of a service interruption for a given reporting period.


L-BAR =Minutes Interrupted

Total Number of Outages

Reliability


MUNIC LW FPL TECO PROG GULF FPUC0

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100

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250

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Average Length of a Service Interruption (L-BAR)

Winter Park ReliabilityMAIFI - Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index

“Blinking Clocks Index”

12-Month MAIFI

Hurricanes and Emergencies

• Mutual Aid• FMEA and APPA members agree to assist each

other during storms• Immediate response• 2004-05 Hurricane Seasons– Hundreds of Crews assisted

from across FL and the US

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