"ELECTRIC SLIDE' hit crew

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016

COURTROOM #1

FOR PURPOSE OF A WORK SESSION

TO PROVIDE OVERVIEW OF ELECTRIC & DISCUSS PCA

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC



It's Electric!

You can't see it
It's electric
You gotta'  feel it
It's electric!

And many of us are starting to feel it!


A couple of weeks ago Newsnet 5 did a story on electric costs in Painesville. Seems some resident's were surprised by the outrageous increases in their electric bill.
We were even told that although Painesville operates it's own power plant it has contracted to purchase electric power from different sources.

The most recent power contracts Painesville has entered into are huge failures. All recommended by AMP-OHIO as well as the administration in 2007. Three come to mind Meigs County not even one watt but a cost of 2.1 million dollars. Prairie State Energy Campus over a billion dollars in overruns and one of the highest electric prices in the country. AMP Hydro CSW. How anyone can develop a Hydro plant and end up being the most expensive power is beyond me. And don't buy Mr. McHugh answer about mortgages he's full of it. Why not one on council questioned him is beyond me!

So how does this affect our electric costs?
Many have told me it means little to them that we are paying $140 MWh.,So?
What's a MWh.?
A megawatt is a unit for measuring power that is equivalent to one million watts is equivalent to the energy produced by 10 automobile  engine. per hour per 24 hours. so 10 MWh. is the equivalent of 100 automobile engines.

Now I asked the city for the invoice from AMP-OHIO. They recently sent me August's invoice.
For August;

$1,359,512.45

Plus as you might remember  the city operated the plant on some days in August. I am waiting to here from the city on that amount also. (I will add it to the post)  Close to 30 souls also work there.

According to Mr. McHughs Painesville Power produced 3,507 MWh. of power in August.
(information received 10/10/16)

This was all set into motion almost 10 years ago. It has nothing to do with anything (PUCO) just simply a very poor judgment by our leaders t that time. Who were led by the nose by AMP-OHIO who I guess put their trust where they shouldn't have. What has AMP-OHIO lost financially? Nothing
They still send us an itemized bill monthly.

So how bad are some of these deals? First thankfully Painesville only receives  a sixth of their daily power from AMP Hydro. What if it was our only source? I use the 1,250 kilowatt for a Painesville resident's bill . the electric bill to your house would be astronomical. As it is for the 5MWh. we purchase about 1/7 of our needs we paid $212,086.59  then from PSEC for approximately less then a third of our needs we paid $371,753.37.

Let's not even get into Congestive or Transmission cost those alone add more to our bill's.

So let's power up the plant and produce! Why? You are presently obligated to purchase this power (50) years.  So why run plant production as well as the power contract's

And our council as well as administrations answer? I guess it's 'pay the man!'

Is this how you want your city run? Are they looking out for you? Hell are they looking out for the future of Painesville?

WHY NOT!  it can't be that complicated.


"Oh. what a tangled web we weave. When we first practice to deceive"  Felicia Hermans