OCTOBER 2022
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murray.utah.gov
Mayor’s Message
MAYOR’S OFFICE
Murray Power’s Planning Pays Off
mayor@murray.utah.gov 801-264-2600 5025 S. State Street Murray, Utah 84107
Brett A. Hales -Mayor
Remember this past summer when we were this summer. The turbines provided about all sweltering in the record-breaking heat? 33 mW of generation to cover that peak Aren’t we all happy that the weather is finally load. Other resources that were used to cooling down? cover Murray’s load include: federal hydro, Through all the hot days, Murray City Power kept your air conditioner landfill methane captured energy, three different coal plants- Hunter, IPA running and the lights on in your homes and offices. Prior planning and San Juan, and purchases from the wholesale marketplace. by your municipally owned utility took steps to make sure you were comfortable without ‘breaking the bank.’ Murray Power is proud to be a public power entity. The City offers better When temperatures were more than 100 degrees for so many days reliability, lower rates and faster restoration than investor-owned utilities. in a row, the entire western electrical grid ‘scrambled’ for energy to keep Local control and financial support for local government are a few more infrastructure functional and efficient. Murray City is connected to the important reasons to love public power. outside electrical world with myriad transmission lines stretching throughout Utah to bring power Murray City Parks and Recreation into the city. When temps soar, the pricing for energy skyrockets. But Murray Power planned months ahead to try to curb the costs with other resource options. Murray City Power staff projected last fall that this summer might be more volatile than other summers. Staff purchased natural gas reserves for the months of June, July, August, and September at a reasonable price. It’s always a gamble to project ahead 5-8 months, but during this summer of 2022, the deals ended up saving lots of money for the Join us for a family fun tradition! City. Murray saw market priced energy soar to more than $1,000/mwh; about seven times the usual Cost: FREE cost of peak energy during August. Fortunately, Time: Check in 5:30pm because of the pre-purchased natural gas, the Races 5:45pm Power Department was able to avoid these costs by generating power with our own natural gas Where: West side of The Park Center turbines located right here in downtown Murray. The plant, located at 153 West 4800 South, was able Register online www.mcreg.com to negate much of the impact of the marketplace by generating hundreds of thousands of kWh during Instructions on how that time period. Remember, if you attempt to race to make a pumpkin The flexibility of the turbines and the planning a "trickster pumpkin" in the race car can be found of a variety of resource options saved the citizen competition, the consequence is on The Park Center owners hundreds of thousands of dollars this possibly a SMASHED PUMPKIN! summer. The turbines were installed in 2001 and FB page have been used for summer peak coverage since then. Murray City Power’s energy game plan has been to draw from a variety of fuels, resources and After the races, stick around to options providing energy around the clock, 365 days watch our pumpkin plummet. a year. Our turbines ‘saved the day’ this summer. In Pumpkins will be dropped short, when the marketplace for power goes high, by the Murray Fire Dept. like we saw this past summer, we start the turbines up to avoid the exorbitant pricing. Natural gas costs Candy and prizes for kids were also extremely high this past summer. Using the turbines to avoid market prices helped avoid If you have questions, krichhart.murray.utah.gov the City’s dependence on the grid market. Murray City Power reached a peak system load of 100 mW
THE SPOOKTACULAR PUMPKIN RACES • October 28, 2022 •
PUMPKIN PLUMMET