{"id":10709,"date":"2014-10-20T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2014-10-20T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T22:44:09","slug":"utilities-steering-committee-meeting-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/20\/utilities-steering-committee-meeting-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Utilities Steering Committee Meeting – LIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re LIVE! at Danville City Hall for the first meeting of the Steering Committee for the Electric Services Assessment. This committee is to “determine how best to cost-effectively serve current and future needs of Danville Utilities electric customers and the City of Danville and maintain progress in transforming the area\u2019s economic base.”<\/p>\n

We’re not sure what will happen, but we’ll be covering it LIVE! Be sure to refresh the page often for the latest happenings, commentary and photos. The meeting will start at 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n

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Fred Shanks, John Gilstrap and Gary Miller are the three members from Danville City Council. <\/p>\n

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Interim Director of Utilities Jason Grey, and City Manager Joe King. <\/p>\n

This committee will meet 8 times up until February. Some options could be privatizing some or all of the electric division, adding generation capability or changing the service territory.<\/p>\n

165 employees in Danville Utilities. Danville Utilities is the largest of all Virginia municipal-owned utilities. Danville Utilities also makes a $2 million payment to the city for administrative services. <\/p>\n

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Utility Chairman Phillip Smith, members Mike Nicholas and Bill Donohue are also members of this committee. 52% of Danville Utilities revenue comes from customers.<\/p>\n

$4.3 million a month from residential, $2.1 million from commercial & $1 million from industrial is the average monthly revenue for Danville Utilities.<\/p>\n

Phillip Smith seems to understand the utilty business. The other two members of the utility commission didn’t seem to understand how electricity makes its way goes from power plant to the customers. This presentation should be presented to the Utility Commission yearly. <\/p>\n

We’re learning about the power plants that Danville partially owns through American Municipal Power. I’ll add more on this in the editing process.<\/p>\n

I know a lot about energy costs, purchasing and transmission because of learning it from a previous job but I’m really surprised that the two other members of the utility commission don’t know this stuff. I do give them for asking questions, though.<\/p>\n

Back to rate discussion. Danville is higher than AEP or Dominion for now, but their rates will be going up soon. Residential complaints have a lot to do with energy efficiency of Danville homes.<\/p>\n

We wrap up this “All About Danville Utilities” meeting and I’m not really sure why this committee was formed. Today’s presentation was something that I expected all utility commission members to know and quite frankly, City Council members should know this too. Especially since it brings $12 million into the city’s general fund. <\/p>\n

I don’t want people to think I’m being too hard on Mike Nicholas and Bill Donohue. I guess I’m being too optimistic thinking that they should have been fully knowledgeable of today’s presentation. <\/p>\n

Here’s the problem that I’ve got with this. We’re going to superpower three city council and three utility commission members with all this information while a consulting firm is going to be doing their own thing. In February, they’ll sit down and tell the Utility Commission what they think is the right thing to do. <\/p>\n

The committee is “going in with an open mind” and that’s good… but they’re still going to be highly influenced by the consulting firm’s recommendation. And let’s face it, that consulting firm will know a hell of a lot more than anybody else will. <\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to seven more lessons or what this process is all about, but I don’t feel that these committee meetings are going to have anything to do with the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re LIVE! at Danville City Hall for the first meeting of the Steering Committee for the Electric Services Assessment. This committee is to “determine how best to cost-effectively serve current and future needs of Danville Utilities electric customers and the City of Danville and maintain progress in transforming the area\u2019s economic base.”<\/p>\n

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