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COMMUNITY &
RELIABILITY AND ECONOMIC

INFRASTRUCTURE POWER SUPPLY
DEVELOPMENT

Strategic Objective: Strategic Objective: Strategic Objective:
Our infrastructure is robust, safe MVU is an active participant on the MVU fully supports a diversified,
and reliable, meets customers’ economic development team to sustainable power supply that
expectations, and is cost-effective. help attract businesses that bring includes renewables, energy
jobs and value to the community. efficiency, demand response,
energy storage, electric vehicles, and
cost-effective and clean distributed
Goals: Goals: generation.
• Evaluate potential adjustments • Enroll 5 new businesses in the Hire
to the MVU business model to MoVal program. Goals:
address changes within the • Meet with major employers and • Update the Integrated Resource
industry. large customers once a month Plan.
• Maintain the reliability measure with Economic Development to • Comply with State Renewable
known as System Average build relationships and determine Portfolio Standard requirements
Interruption Duration Index their needs regarding electric in a cost-effective manner.
(SAIDI) at 5.0 minutes or less. SAIDI service.
measures the average duration • Participate and/or sponsor at • Comply with State energy
in minutes of sustained outages least 5 City events per year efficiency requirements in a cost-
per year. as a means to improve name effective manner.
• Achieve Reliable Public Power recognition. • Comply with State requirements
Provider (RP3) designation from • Partner with other agencies such to consider energy storage
the American Public Power as the California Municipal Utilities targets that are cost-effective.
Association. The RP3 designation Association (CMUA), Southern • Consider the State’s loading order
tells customers that MVU excels California Public Power Authority when adding resources to meet
in four critical areas: reliability, (SCPPA), or the University of customer needs for electricity.
safety, workforce development, California at Riverside (UCR) The loading order requires utilities
and system improvement. on the development of various to decrease electricity demand
• Complete installation of the smart projects or analytical tools that by increasing energy efficiency
meter system to meet customer will benefit the community. and demand response programs,
expectations regarding control • Continue to provide economic and meet new generation
and management of electricity development rate incentives that needs first with renewable and
usage. benefit the community and utility distributed generation resources,
and second with clean fossil-
• Complete acquisition of street and align with the City’s strategic fueled generation.
lights from SCE as a means to plan initiatives.
provide benefit to the entire
community.
• Complete distribution ties and
system upgrades (such as
automation of equipment on the
distribution system) as identified
in the annual Distribution System
Plan to ensure a robust, safe, and
reliable system.
• Meet applicable reliability
standards as identified by the
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC) to ensure
the safe, reliable operation of the
distribution system.

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