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Austin Energy Operational Update Q3 FY21 Item 10 Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee – August 2021 Sidney Jackson Chief Operating Officer, Austin Energy August 2021 © 2018 Austin Energy 1 Austin Energy Operational Update Discussion Topics Performance Carbon Footprint On-Site Energy Resources Future State 2 Austin Energy Operational Update Performance 3 Commercial Availability & Start Success Commercial Availability Generation Resource Target Seasonal Commercial % Availability Commercial Availability Actuals (%) Q2 FY21 AVG Q3 FY21 AVG 91 98 100 91 94 63.9 90.2 87.2 * 95 95 97 100 Decker Steam Units Sand Hill Combined Cycle Fayette Units South Texas Project Start Success Commercial Availability values reflect maintenance or refueling outages typical for this period Start Success Target(%) Start Success Actuals (%) Q3 FY21 AVG Q2 FY21 AVG Simple Cycle Start Success 99 100 100 4 Net Generation and Load Analysis FY 2021 Q3 Power Generation Cost by Fuel Type 1% 4% 15% 55% 25% Nuclear Coal NG Renewable Biomass *Costs include fuel for generation, fuel transportation, renewable Power purchases agreements 2,680 2,660 2,640 2,620 2,600 2,580 2,560 2,540 2,520 2,500 Historical FY Q3 System Peak Demand (MW) RENEWABLE POWER AS PERCENT OF CONSUMPTION Non- Renewable 48% Renewable 52% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 This information is unaudited and should be read in conjunction with the audited Comprehensive Financial Reports for the City of Austin, when published on 5 System Reliability CAIDI w/o MED CAIDI = Customer Average Interruption Duration Index Average time to restore service. SAIDI = System Average Interruption Duration Index Total duration of interruptions for the average customer, during a period of time. SAIFI = System Average Interruption Frequency Index How often the average customer experiences a sustain interruption, over a period of time. MED = Major Event Days I F O N O T A R U D L A T O T I S N O T P U R R E T N I 65 60 55 50 45 40 52.77 45.50 60.88 45.50 E R O T S E R O T E M T I . G V A I E C V R E S 85 83 81 79 77 75 73 71 69 67 65 0.8 0.75 0.7 0.65 0.6 0.55 0.5 I S N O T P U R R E T N I F O R E B M U N . G V A R E M O T S U C R E P 79.95 68.51 0.66 0.57 Q3 FY20 Q3 FY21 Austin Energy Goal SAIDI w/o MED SAIFI w/o MED 82.27 68.51 0.74 0.57 Q3 FY20 Q3 FY21 Austin Energy Goal Q3 FY20 Q3 FY21 Austin Energy Goal 6 Austin Energy Operational Update Carbon Footprint 7 Renewable Generation as a Percentage of Load 70% 58% 58% 43% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Oct-20 Nov-20 Dec-20 Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21 May-21 Jun-21 8 Environmental Focus Reducing our Carbon Footprint Key programs and projects designed to: • Expand Renewable Portfolio • Integrate Distributed Energy Resources Austin-Bergstrom Airport Project (ABIA): New Wind and Solar Resources: • New solar array completed: 1.8MW locally-generated renewable • The equivalent energy to supply 160 homes/year • Solar panels equal the distance of 2 football fields and sit atop 2021. • Gulf Wind (170 MWs) original contract went COD on May 12, 2021. • East Blacklands aka Pflugerville Solar (144 MWs) went COD on July 15, • Aragorn Solar (180 MWs) has an expected COD of October 2021 • Awaiting final administrative step: Certificate of insurance, • Pandora Solar (250 MWs) is an outer year PPA with an unchanged energy ABIA Blue garage expected any day expected COD of December 2023 • Project closed out in July 2021 and fully operational. 9 Austin Energy Operational Update District Cooling Projects 10 Key District Energy & Cooling Activities District Cooling Plant #3 (Downtown, Crescent Tract) Austin Community College Highland Campus Constructing 10,000 ton chilled water plant for the Downtown System • Construction of project is almost complete. Constructing a 6,000 ton chilled water plant with Thermal Energy Storage Initial phase will be for 4500 tons based upon campus needs. • • Changes initiated by the customer (ACC) to include a well on site • Working towards obtaining Certificate Of Occupancy and • Cost of this change is approx. $1 million but will save several million addressing inspection punch-list items over the lifecycle of the plant • Turnover to AE Operations anticipated in August 2021 • Final completion of project altered by 4 months • Beneficial use of the plant will be October 2021 • On-Target for substantial completion in Q4 2021 Mueller Energy Center #2 (Mueller Redevelopment Zone) Constructing a 6,000 ton chilled water plant with Thermal Energy Storage • Project still in the design phase. • Plant status under evaluation due to budget increase • Decision how move forward is InProgress. 11 Austin Energy Operational Update Future State 12 Grid Resilience AE Strategic Goals 2020-2025 Grid Resilience Improve Distribution System Reliability Identify, Rank, and Address feeder maintenance needs in areas historically beset by outages. Identify, Rank and Address system hardening needs in areas most susceptible to wildfire risk. Phase I – Top 10 Feeders in both Performance and Wildfire Criticality addressed (CY/2021) Improve Substation Reliability Evaluate substation equipment operation and address legacy equipment needs. Phase I - Fiskville Substation Upgrades (COMPLETE) Phase II- Slow Breaker Operation – Review, Rank and Schedule Substation Breakers for maint. and remediation Improve Underground Network Reliability Starts with enabling greater Visibility to our downtown network through the integration of our network model into our Advanced Distribution Management System Phase I - Network fully Modeled in ADMS – (Q3/2020) (COMPLETE) Phase II - Enhance model through GIS/ADMS to increase system mapping and visibility- Primary– (Q2/2021) (COMPLETE) Phase III - Enhance model to increase system mapping, visibility; support analysis of load and flow (Q1/2022) Transmission System of the Future As part of the 2030 generation plan, Austin Energy is commissioning a Transmission system study that will investigate ways to achieve our goals set forth in the plan while compensating for the loss of generation plants. Phase I - Development of evaluation criteria (Q1/2021) (COMPLETE) Phase II – Develop SOW for RFP release (Q3/2021) (COMPLETE) Phase II – Evaluating RFP bid responses (ongoing) 13 Austin Energy Operational Update Appendix 14