8/20/2024 item 7
City Council
Item #7: Addition of twelve new
positions for Silicon Valley Power and
1.0 new position in the City Attorney's
CITY OF Office
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THE MISSION CIT
August 20, 2024
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VALLEY
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Growth and Expansion
• Staff determined there was a growth
need in late 2019 - SVP Strategic
Planning Session
• Prioritized Growth Plan as an SVP
Strategic Priority
• Needs for both SVP Local System and
State Transmission System
Peak limit approximately 750 MW
- Planning for a 1250+ MW system
Double current peak - 669 MW
2 POST MEETING MATERIAL
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VALLEY
POWER
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Council Communication and Actions
October 13, 2020 - Master service agreements with • July 18, 2023 - Updated City Council regarding several engineering consultant firms these key near-term projects April 6, 2021- Comprehensive review of upcoming • October 10, 2023, Authorized the purchase of up load growth and capital projects to the City to 12 high voltage transformers - $81,392,908 Council. April 23, 2024 - updated connection fees and
• September 28, 2021, the City Council accepted load development fees, SVP's Three-Year System Growth Plan Strategy • May 7, 2024, Authorized the negotiation and April 5, 2022 - updated connection and lo purchase of high voltage circuit breakers - velopment fees for ST $38,000,000.
• November 15, 2022 - City Council accepted SVP's
System Expansion Plan for the California
Independent System Operator's Transmission
Planning Process
• May 9, 2023 - City's intent to issue tax-exempt
combination revenue metering transformers -
electric system bonds
$17,400,000
3 SVP Historic Load Growth
460
420
380 —
340
Gigawatt Hours (GWh)
-Monthly Energy —Rolling 12 month Average
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VALLEY
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SVP Continued Growth
18/19 23/24 % Incr.
Operating Expenses (Millions) $480 $625 30%
Sales (Millions)* $439 $654 49%
CIP (5-Year Budget)** $206M $608M 195%
* In 29/30 Sales are projected at $1.1 Billion
** In 24/25 the 5-year CIP is $804 Million
18/19 23/24 Added % Increase
FTE Positions 197 223* 26 13%
Filled Positions 165 181 16 10%
* Most positions were added during FY 21/22 (16 positions) and 22/23 (8 positions) 5 SILICON
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SVP Staffing
• City is in process of doing a staffing plan for SVP (completion in 9-12 months) - Immediate needs
- Expect additional needs in the future
• Staff completed some preliminary comparison analysis:
Employee per MW
Year SVP Alameda Palo Alto Roseville SMUD
2024 0.3 1.3 0.6 0.6 1.4
2040 0.1 0.9 0.9 0.4 2.0
Employee per Substation
Year SVP. Alameda Palo Alto Roseville SMUD
2024 7.0 28.3 29.4 9.4 38.9
2040 6.2 28.3 29.4 9.4 38.2
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VALLEY
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Positions Requested
Engineering
• SVP currently includes fifty-two (52) projects with a value of approximately $420 million in FY 2024/25
• Separate team that focuses on the $400+ million System Expansion Plan projects (NRS, KRS, SRS, 115 kV
Transmission).
• Key Additional Projects
- Four 60kV reconductor projects
- Breaker replacement projects
- Phase Shifting Transformer project
- Construction of seven substations
- Two additional distribution substation expansions
- Completion of Twenty Year (20) System Expansion Plan
• New Positions - New capital project delivery team
- One Principal Electric Utility Engineer
- One Senior Electric Utility Engineer
- One Assistant Electric Utility Engineer
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VALLEY
POWER.
CITY OF SANTA CLARA
Positions Requested
Operations
• The operations group will be involved in all new projects - Support all the construction, inspection, and commissioning of all the new projects
- Ongoing operations and maintenance including protection, communication and control
• Four new positions
- One Electric Division Manager
- Three Electric Utility Engineers
Resources, Rates and Customer Engagement
• Monitoring, scheduling, settlement and compliance of 32 projects • Working on 12 PPAs concurrently
• New Outage Management System (OMS)
• Three new positions are needed
- One Senior Resource Analyst
- One Principal Power Analyst
- One Senior Business Analyst
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Positions Requested
Business Services and Administration
• Construction, maintenance, and operations needs are supported by contractors • Typical to have over 200 contracts
• Support construction contracts, collaboration with the Purchasing Division, authorization of work from agreements, insurance, and prevailing wage compliance. • Addition of positions will also support ongoing internal control efforts • Two new positions are needed
- Two new Power Contract Specialist positions
City Attorney's Office
: One Senior Counsel for Silion Valley Power assigned to SVP.
Service agreements, public works construction contracts, substation agreements, deposit agreements, fiber lease agreements, pole contact agreements, renewable energy, resource adequacy procurement and assists with the negotiation of renewable power purchase agreement, resource adequacy agreements, easement sale and acquisition. • One Deputy City Attorney
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Recommendation
That the City Council approve the addition of twelve new positions for Silicon Valley Power and 1.0 new position in the City Attorney's Office to support Silicon Valley Power's expanded system as follows:
• One Principal Electric Utility Engineer
• One Senior Electric Utility Engineer
• Three Electric Utility Engineers
One Assistant Electric Utility Engineer
. One Electric Division Manager
One Senior Resource Analyst
One Principal Power Analyst
One Senior Business Analyst
• Two Power Contract Specialists
• One Deputy City Attorney
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City Council
Item #7: Addition of twelve new
positions for Silicon Valley Power and
1.0 new position in the City Attorney's
Office
RTC 24-742
1852
THE MISSION CIT
August 20, 2024
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