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My name is Michael Jay Nordquist. I am the electric superintendent for the city of Beresford. I have been employed by the city for more than 25 years.
Vermillion city leaders and citizens, I would like to clarify a false statement made by Clay County Commission Chairman Leo Powell in the Vermillion Plain Talk on July 4. Here is his statement about the city of Beresford having a seven day outage:
“I, for the life of me, can’t understand why they want to do this,” Leo Powell said of the city’s proposal. “There is no payback to this, and it takes the city from having three alternate sources of power to having just one radial feed with a loop in that radial feed.”
The city of Beresford receives its electricity from a system with a similar design, he said. “The city of Beresford sat seven days one time without power because they only had one source,” he said. “I’d hate to see Vermillion in that same boat.”
In my 25 plus years of service to the city of Beresford, we have never had an outage over 36 hours. That 36 hour, outage (which was not seven days) occurred in March 1998 when a voltage regulator failed in the WAPA substation three miles north of Beresford. That outage was one of the reasons why the city built its own 115 KV line for more reliability which is the same goal that the city of Vermillion is looking at. We receive our power over transmission lines owned by Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). They are the federal government agency that supplies hydro power from the dams, the same agency that will feed Vermillion.
WAPA also feeds East River Electric which is the company that feeds Vermillion at the present time. To me, it seems like Vermillion is looking out for the best interest of its community by cutting out the middle man. Since our 36 hour outage we have built three miles of 115 kilovolt (KV) transmission line and a new substation inside the city limits.
We do use the old sub three miles north of town for a back up. Also, Leo made the comment that “there is no pay back.” In Beresford’s case our line losses were 11 percent to 12 percent before 2004 when the new sub was put on line. The city’s losses are now down to 3 percent losses.
This gave the city of Beresford an 8 to 9 percent savings in power costs over the previous arrangement. That savings will pay for our transmission line and substation in 15 years. Also since 2004 when the new sub was put on line we have had two 15 minute outages for sub maintance and not one problem with our transmission line.
The Beresford Electric Department and Beresford city leaders would like to see the citizens and city leaders of Vermillion continue with their goal of building their 115 KV transmission line. Vermillion is a great community with great people.
Thank You
Michael Jay Nordquist
Electric superintendent
Beresford
My name is Michael Jay Nordquist. I am the electric superintendent for the city of Beresford. I have been employed by the city for more than 25 years.
Vermillion city leaders and citizens, I would like to clarify a false statement made by Clay County Commission Chairman Leo Powell in the Vermillion Plain Talk on July 4. Here is his statement about the city of Beresford having a seven day outage:
“I, for the life of me, can’t understand why they want to do this,” Leo Powell said of the city’s proposal. “There is no payback to this, and it takes the city from having three alternate sources of power to having just one radial feed with a loop in that radial feed.”
The city of Beresford receives its electricity from a system with a similar design, he said. “The city of Beresford sat seven days one time without power because they only had one source,” he said. “I’d hate to see Vermillion in that same boat.”
In my 25 plus years of service to the city of Beresford, we have never had an outage over 36 hours. That 36 hour, outage (which was not seven days) occurred in March 1998 when a voltage regulator failed in the WAPA substation three miles north of Beresford. That outage was one of the reasons why the city built its own 115 KV line for more reliability which is the same goal that the city of Vermillion is looking at. We receive our power over transmission lines owned by Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). They are the federal government agency that supplies hydro power from the dams, the same agency that will feed Vermillion.
WAPA also feeds East River Electric which is the company that feeds Vermillion at the present time. To me, it seems like Vermillion is looking out for the best interest of its community by cutting out the middle man. Since our 36 hour outage we have built three miles of 115 kilovolt (KV) transmission line and a new substation inside the city limits.
We do use the old sub three miles north of town for a back up. Also, Leo made the comment that “there is no pay back.” In Beresford’s case our line losses were 11 percent to 12 percent before 2004 when the new sub was put on line. The city’s losses are now down to 3 percent losses.
This gave the city of Beresford an 8 to 9 percent savings in power costs over the previous arrangement. That savings will pay for our transmission line and substation in 15 years. Also since 2004 when the new sub was put on line we have had two 15 minute outages for sub maintance and not one problem with our transmission line.
The Beresford Electric Department and Beresford city leaders would like to see the citizens and city leaders of Vermillion continue with their goal of building their 115 KV transmission line. Vermillion is a great community with great people.
Thank You
Michael Jay Nordquist
Electric superintendent
Beresford
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