City of Piqua Ohio Municipal Power System

•	· Awarded Diamond level certification through American Public Power Associations’ RP3, Reliable Public Power Provider program which benchmarks electric municipalities against one another. Piqua is one of only six of over 2,000 eligible municipally operated electric systems to achieve a perfect 100% score for excellence in safety, workforce development, reliability and system improvement.
•	Saved Piqua Power System customers an estimated $3,500,000 through lower electric rates as compared to nearby investor-owned utility.
•	Provided no fee Street Lighting service to the residents of Piqua. A total of 2,950 street lights illuminate Piqua, which translates to an estimated $300,000 benefit to our citizens.
•	Completed our most reliable year since we began tracking electrical outages in 2004. With an overall reliability of 99.99% and an average outage restoration time of less than 50 minutes. The 129 outages recorded in 2009, were 106 fewer than 2008 and 42 outages less than our previous best years of 2004 and 2007.
•	With Bill Sommer’s retirement, Ed Krieger was promoted as the fourth Power System Director in the history of the Piqua Power System. By re-aligning responsibilities, Ed’s previous position as Asst. Power System Director was left vacant, thus reducing ongoing Power System costs. Ed also serves as Chair of the Western AMP Service Group and therefore represents the WASG on the AMP Board of Trustees.
•	Executed contracts to participate in the Meldahl/Greenup hydro projects to be located along the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Huntington, West Virginia. When these and the Cannelton, Smithland and Willow Island projects are completed, Piqua will receive approximately 15% of our energy from renewable resources.
•	The Prairie State Energy Campus is now 35.7% complete. When complete in 2011/2012, this state of the art mine-mouth coal-fired power plant, located in southern Illinois will be one of the cleanest coal-fired plants in the country, utilizing the latest in environmental controls. Piqua will own a 20 Megawatt stake in plant, which will provide the City with much of its baseload electricity requirements.
•	Secured power supply for 2010 and 2011 through American Municipal Power (Piqua’s Joint Action Agency) at stable and competitive price levels.
•	Completed an engineering and GIS model of the Power System’s electric distribution system utilizing Milsoft and ESRI software. This model includes a database of all Power System assets.
•	Hired four apprentice electric lineworkers and one electrician to fill open positions due to unexpected, as well as pending retirements. Also, promoted two apprentice lineworkers to journeymen after completion of their four year apprenticeships.
•	Continued progress on converting the original 4kV distribution system to 13 kV. This process serves to reduce costs and enhance service reliability. The facilities being rebuilt were originally constructed from the early 1930’s through the mid 1950’s.
•	Completed the construction and relocation of new electric facilities associated with the Broadway Phase I road improvement project.
•	Purchased a mini digger-derrick to be utilized to rehabilitate and improve electric facilities in difficult to access areas, where the use of conventional equipment is not practical.
•	Provided mutual aid assistance to the Madisonville, Kentucky after an ice storm devastated much of Kentucky and parts of the south in early February. Eight Power System lineworkers assisted with electric service restoration for a two week period until service was restored to all customers.
•	Replaced existing Time Warner Road Runner communications at our substations with much more reliable and cost-effective satellite communications.