REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on an Agreement with Santa Clara Gateway I LLC and Arista Networks, Inc. to Allow for Two Electric Services at 5453 Great America Parkway
Report
BACKGROUND
Santa Clara Gateway I LLC, is the building owner at 5453 Great America Parkway and Arista Networks, Inc. (Arista) is a tenant and the City's utility customer of record. Arista is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara and has a desire to grow its business by creating additional lab space in the building to test new products. In order to accommodate this load growth, which would exceed the capacity of their existing transformer by 20%, Arista has requested two electrical services when routinely only one is allowed.
On April 3, 2018, the City Council approved the use of City Electric forces to install the second 2000kVA service at 5453 Great America Parkway funded by Arista which also included the prepayment to remove the second service in the future, if needed. A Special Facilities Agreement (Agreement) is required in order to document this departure from Silicon Valley Power's (SVP) standard service design per SVP's published Rules and Regulations, Rule number 9.A.4 "Description of Standard Electric Service - Number of Electric Services."
DISCUSSION
The Special Facilities Agreement (Attachment 1) allows the customer to have two services in order to meet their immediate load growth which is projected to exceed the capacity of their existing 2000 kVA transformer. As SVP does not utilize 3000 kVA transformers, customers with load forecasts over 2500 kVA are generally required to upgrade to a primary, 12 kV service (up to 4500 kVA capacity). Arista will be required to install a SVP approved load shedding scheme to ensure that the two services will not exceed 3000 kVA.
The Agreement obligates Santa Clara Gateway I LLC to be responsible to pay for any overtime costs if they request removal of the second electrical service outside of normal busine...
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