MEA UpdateBy MEA General Manager Joe Griffith

October 21, 2011

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MEA Major Undertakings

• Eklutna Generation Station

• Intertie/Transmission upgrades

• Distribution system upgrade/improvements

• ARCTEC (Alaska Railbelt Cooperative Transmission & Electric Company)

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Eklutna Generation Station

• Capacity - 135 MW

• Energy - 800,000 MWh/year average

• Price in negotiation

• Current Status

– Minor air permit in hand

– Looking for fuel supply

Fuel Supply

• Quick solution neededFavored Plan

• Cook Inlet 20” Line

• LNG Import

Backup Plan

• Diesel

• Investigating propane

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Transmission Line Improvements

• Teeland to Redington

• Eklutna line termination plan (Chugach, ML&P, MEA)

• EGS to Hospital substation

• Strengthen Douglas to Hospital link

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• Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

• Substation improvements

– Redington rebuild

– Parks rebuild

– Digital equipment installation

• Looping existing & new

• Underground injection – Eagle River

• Converting overhead to underground – Eagle River

• Clearing 300 miles/year overhead & underground

Distribution System Improvements

Railbelt Energy PlanRailbelt Energy PlanJoe Griffith, President, ARCTECJoe Griffith, President, ARCTEC

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ARCTEC – The Railbelt G & T Co-op

“Power in Unity”

•Created January, 2011

•Purpose:

• Addressing the generation, transmission and ancillary

service needs of the Railbelt region.

• Procuring fuel, alternative energy and hydroelectric

generation facilities.

• Electric utilities single voice

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• Southcentral Power Project

• Eklutna Generation Station

• Battle Creek

• Tx projects

• Geo thermal

• Wind– Fire Island

– Eva Creek

• CIGGS remodel

• LNG import/ N. Slope

• Watana hydro

Railbelt Energy Plan

ARCTEC Project Allocations

Anchorage to Quartz Creek Tx line maintenance

and repair $15,000,000

Battle Creek diversion into Bradley Lake $3,000,000

Cook Inlet Gas Gathering System (CIGGS)remodel $4,000,000

Substation improvements $1,000,000

Soldotna to Nikiski Tx upgrade $18,000,000

Quartz Creek to Soldotna Tx maintenance and

repair$5,000,000

Seward power plant integration $4,000,000

Soldotna to Quartz Creek Tx study, design and

permitting$1,000,000

Teeland to Healy Substation improvements and

repair$5,000,000

Grand Total $56,000,000

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Fuel Situation Alternatives

• Cook Inlet exploration

• AGIA spur

• Bullet line

• LNG import, foreign or

N. Slope supply

• Propane

• Diesel – last resort

Fuel Situation

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ARCTEC – The Future

• Investigate becoming Railbelt independent

system operator (ISO)

• Watana hydro project participant

• Battle Creek diversion support

• Upgrade Railbelt transmission system

• Truly become the Railbelt G & T

Questions & Discussion

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