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Mission Statement
The mission of the Electric Utility is to be a positive factor in the economic development of the City by providing safe, reliable electric services at a competitive price.

Services, Functions and Activities
The Electric Utility generates, distributes and sells energy services. In addition to the operation and maintenance of the Power Plant, the Utility maintains transmission and distribution services to provide a reliable source of energy. The Electric Utility buys and sells power when it is economically advantageous to the City of Homestead.

GOALS AND MEASUREMENTS
Growth and Economic Development

Maintain the residential monthly rate to be competitive with other municipal electric utilities in the state of Florida.

• Maintain residential monthly rate for 1000 Kwh's within plus or minus 3% of median rate for all Florida municipal electric utilities.
  1. Track on a monthly basis using published reports by Florida Municipal Electric Association (FMEA).
  2. Maintain the cost associated with all facets of generation, distribution and administration, or minimize any cost increases that may become necessary.

Organizational Performance

Provide a safety conscious working environment for all employees.

• Maintain OSHA incidence rate at 6.3 or below.
  1. Conduct departmental safety meetings on a monthly basis.
  2. Schedule outside safety training for the line department through Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA).

Strive for a reduction in response and repair time to customer outages.

• Maintain Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) at or below average for medium sized municipal utilities. This index measures the average repair time experienced by interrupted customers.
  1. Improve response time by reviewing and implementing a 30% call out policy.
  2. Compute monthly and compare to CAIDI Indices published by FMPA.

  Maintain the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) to be competitive with other medium size municipal electric utilities. A medium size electric utility has a customer base of 10,000 to 25,000.

• Maintain SAIDI Index at 20% lower than the reported FMPA monthly average index for medium sized utilities.
  1. Participate in FMPA Distribution Reliability Participation meeting biannually to analyze data and discuss best practices among other municipals
  2. Compute monthly and compare to SAIDI Indices published by FMPA.
  3. Increase maintenance and tree trimming activities on overhead lines.

Earn annual recognition as an American Public Power Association (APPA) Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) Utility.

• Demonstrate basic proficiency in four disciplines: reliability, safety, training and system improvement. Reliability represents 30%, safety and training are 25% each, and system improvements is 20% of the total points required.
  1. Compliance with all previous benchmarks will result in achievement of this goal.

Home Energy Saver

The Home Energy Saver is designed to help consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, and find the resources to make the savings happen. The Home Energy Saver was the first Internet-based tool for calculating energy use in residential buildings. The project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as part of the national ENERGY STAR Program for improving energy efficiency in homes, with previous support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's PATH projgram, and the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.

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Facility Connection Requirements

The North American Electric Reliability Council Standard FAC-001-0 requires to document, to maintain, and to publish Facility Connection Requirements for any generation, transmission or end-user facility that may want to connect to The City of Homestead’s bulk electric system. The requirements are designed to ensure the safe operation, integrity and reliability of the US bulk electric system.

Please click here to obtain the most current issue of our Facility Connection Requirements document.