REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on Silicon Valley Power System Expansion Plan for California Independent System Operators Transmission Planning Process FY2023/024 Agreement with Power System Professionals, Inc. Doing Business as Power Pros (Power Pros), Related Budget Amendments (Five Affirmative Votes Required), and Addition of New Positions
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services
BACKGROUND
The City of Santa Clara's Electric Utility, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), has provided dependable electric service for over 125 years. SVP's 2021 actual recorded peak load was 598 MW1 and energy delivery nearly 4,110 Gigawatt-hours (GWh) a year to SVP's customers. Thus far for calendar year 2022, SVP has experienced significant load growth and recorded a system peak of 702 MW2 during the September 2022 heat wave. SVP is projecting that energy delivery in 2022 will reach 4,550 GWh a 10.5% increase from calendar year 2021. Based on SVP's experience with how new load develops SVP is preparing for its system peak load to double over the next 10 years and an increase the number of substations from twenty-three (23) to up-to thirty-one (31) by 2032.
At the September 28, 2021, City Council meeting, Council accepted SVP's Three-Year System Growth Strategy Plan, prepared by Electrical Consultants Inc. (ECI). The Three-Year System Growth Strategy Plan presents an analysis of SVP's transmission system. The Three-Year System Growth Strategy Plan identified $300 million in proposed projects to install new facilities and to replace aged infrastructure with higher capacity infrastructure when needed. An amendment to the agreement with AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (AECOM) was authorized and executed, and AECOM has been onboarded to provide program management and project management support to assist with this effort. Staff recently provided an update to Council on the key projects on November 1, 2022, as part of the SVP quarterly report.
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