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Pascoag Utility District is now on Facebook & Twitter!
Electric companies across the country are using Twitter and Facebook to give their customers the most up to date information when they need it most. If there is a widespread outage, utilities are finding that these are great tools to keep their customers informed when other methods of communication fail. PUD is happy to offer this valuable communications enhancement for our customers so that they can always have the most up to date information available.
In order to get Pascoag Utility District’s updates:
Follow us on Twitter by creating or using your existing free Twitter account and then “Follow” us @PascoagUtility and select the mobil option.
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Join the conversation today!
Thanks,
Pascoag Utility District Staff
PUD Power Supply Strategy Brings Further Improvements in 2013 & 2014
Based on PUD’s successful power supply strategy implemented last year for the years 2012 through 2014, we decided to query the market again to fill out the remaining gap for 2013 and 2014. The deal last year allowed us to reduce our Standard Offer charges significantly for 2012, and we want to continue on in that tradition whenever possible. I note that the deal we put in place had us hedge our total power portfolio up to the following percentages:
2012 – 100%
2013 – 80%
2014 – 75%.
Our strategy was to hold back a little in 2013 and 2014 to watch the market and look for further opportunities to improve our situation. We watched very closely as natural gas prices and resultant power market prices continued to drop throughout last year and early into this year, so a few weeks ago, we planned and ran a solicitation to add to our 2013 and 2014 mix. The end result is excellent. We will be purchasing an additional 15% of our requirement through May of 2013, and 5% through the remainder of 2013 and all of 2014, all at a great price per kWh which will help us keep our Standard Offer costs low.
Our goal here at PUD is for our customers’ power needs to be at least 95% hedged when market conditions show favorable pricing. We are now hedged 95% through June of 2013 at a very attractive average rate, and well on our way to that goal through 2014.
98 Public Power Utilities Receive APPA Safety Award
Nearly 100 public power utilities were presented awards for their outstanding safety practices April 16 at the APPA Engineering and Operations Technical Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. From more than 275 entries, 98 public power utilities, joint action agencies, and federal agencies earned the safety award.
"Safety should always be priority number one for electric utilities," said Darrell Shaw, chair of the APPA Safety Committee and safety and technical training specialist at Memphis Light Gas & Water in Tennessee. "Sending each and every one of our employees home safe to their families every night is what it’s all about."
In judging the annual contest, the APPA Safety Committee reviews three years worth of data prior to considering utilities for an award. Entrants were placed in categories according to their number of worker-hours and judged for the most incident-free records during 2011. The incidence rate is based on the number of work-related reportable injuries or illnesses and the number of worker-hours during 2011, as defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The winners are grouped by worker-hours of exposure. The following utilities received first place awards, unless otherwise noted.
Group C (utilities with 30,000 to 59,999 worker-hours of exposure)
Bryan Municipal Utilities, Ohio
City of Winfield Electric, Kan.
Springville City Municipal Power & Light, Utah
City of Mesa Energy Resources, Ariz.
City of Gillette Electrical Services, Wyo.
Shelby Division of Electric & Telecommunications, Ohio
Chillicothe Municipal Utilities, Mo.
Sturgeon Bay Utilities, Wis.
Erwin Utilities, Tenn.
City of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, Ohio
Mayfield Electric & Water Systems, Ky.
Pascoag Utility District, R.I.
Greer Commission of Public Works, S.C.
City Of Higginsville, Mo.
City of Monroe, N.C.
City of Princeton Electric Department, Ill.
Tuscumbia Electric Department, Ala.
City of Oconomowoc Utilities, Wis.
Stoughton Utilities, Wis.
Marshall Municipal Utilities, Minn. (Second Place)
Marblehead Municipal Light Department, Mass. (Third Place)
Massena Electric Department, N.Y. (Honorable Mention)
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Burrillville High School Athletic Field Scoreboard Relocation
We at Pascoag Utility District are extremely pleased to have worked with Burrillville High School in relocating an electronic scoreboard from Eccleston Field to the Gledhill soccer field on the high school property. The Gledhill field has a higher usage in terms of competitive sports such as high school soccer, where having the score visible from anywhere in the vicinity of the field is a great advantage. As can be seen in the photos below, the relocated scoreboard is much larger and more visible than the existing scoreboard at the Gledhill field (both old and new scoreboards are in the photos... the old scoreboard will be removed shortly).
The project started when school committee member Ray Trinque asked if we at Pascoag Utility might be willing to provide a little time from our operations crew together with our heavy equipment to help with the relocation of the scoreboard. PUD immediately saw the value in helping out such an important neighbor as our town school department, and we asked Bill Guertin, Assistant General Manager of Operations, to lead the effort for Pascoag. Ray put Bill in touch with Jim Woodward, Burrillville school department Facilities Director, and both of these gentleman and their staffs made this happen in a short period of time. In fact they were able to take advantage of the unseasonable weather to get this accomplished in February, which is amazing considering the conditions we had faced here in Burrillville during the past winter period.
From all of us here at Pascoag Utility District, we wish the Burrillville teams who utilize the great facilities provided by the Recreation Department a very successful 2012 season.
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