DER Interconnection Process - Marshall

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DER Interconnection Process - Marshall

Date: March 28, 2019
Time:
  • Mar 28, 2019 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Marshall Municipal Utilities, 113 South 4th Street, Marshall, MN 56258
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Regional Meeting

By June 17, 2019, every municipal electric utility in Minnesota is required to adopt a new Interconnection Process for Distributed Energy Resources based on the process adopted on August 13, 2018, by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC).

MMUA, and the Minnesota Rural Electric Association spent several months working with Star Energy Services to develop a streamlined process for municipal and cooperative utilities based closely on the MPUC’s. While easier to follow than the MPUC’s version, the manuals, agreements and timelines laid out in the Minnesota Municipal Interconnection Process (M-MIP) require training for every municipal utility.

MMUA will host the necessary training in four locations to be accessible to every municipal utility. It is very important for every municipal electric in Minnesota to have someone attend one of these training sessions in order to know how to bring the utility into compliance with state law.

Each attendee will receive extensive, professionally prepared materials including manuals and agreement forms for adoption by their utility. These will not be freely available to utilities that do not attend.

The training will also provide necessary updates to the Model Municipal DG Policy and Interconnection Rules and the Model Cogeneration and Small Power Production Tariff that were the focus of related training in 2016-17.

Who should attend?

This event focuses on utility policy and state regulatory compliance and is intended for management and/or upper level operations personnel of ALL Minnesota municipal electric utilities and appropriate municipal power agency personnel.

Advanced registration is required.

About the Speaker

Kristi Robinson, Senior Electrical Engineer with Star Energy Services, will lead the discussion. Kristi started her career in 2002 as a Distribution System Engineer at Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric. In late 2015, Kristi made the change to Star Energy Services. Her primary areas of responsibility include system planning, renewable policy and regulation, metering, integration of utility technologies, cost of service studies and operation management of Southern Minnesota Energy Cooperative.

Kristi conducted similar training in January for all of the state’s cooperatives. She also led Utility Rules, Rates and Contracts for Customer Solar and Wind for MMUA in 2016-2017. MMUA’s Bill Black will accompany Kristi during each session, but she will lead them.

Dates/Locations

This convenient, one-day event will be presented at four different locations in Minnesota. Locations are:

March 20, 2019  Owatonna
March 22, 2019 — Grand Rapids
March 27, 2019  — Detroit Lakes
March 28, 2019 — Marshall

To register for a different date/location, click on the link above.

Registration Fee

Members:  $300.00 per person
Non-Members:  $350.00 per person

Attendees must be from a municipal electric utility or power agency.

Fee includes:  Tuition, extensive materials for adoption by utility’s governing body, refreshments and lunch. Please let us know if you have special dietary needs.

Deadline to register is March 14.

Note: An article in the February Resource newsletter listed an incorrect fee to attend this workshop. The correct fee is $300.00 per person.

Cancellations/Refunds

A refund will be given on advance registrations if the MMUA office is notified by 4:30 pm on March 13. A cancellation fee of $30 will be charged. No refunds after March 13.

Photographs

By registering for this event I/we, the registered attendee(s), authorize Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) to photograph me at this event and use such photographs in MMUA marketing materials (both electronic and print). I understand that I will not be paid for giving this consent.

Questions?

Contact Rita Kelly at 763.746.0707 or email rkelly@mmua.org.

A printable brochure for this regional workshop is also available.