The Public Utilities Advisory Board (PUAB) met on Thursday, May 29, 2025, at 5:02 PM in the Council Chambers. The meeting included public comments, approval of prior meeting minutes, receipt of multiple reports from water and electric utilities, and presentations on retail electricity supply comparison, green energy certificates, and the Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS). Seven members were present; one was excused.
Hello, this is Phil. Hi, Phil, we can hear you. Oh, okay. All right, hi, everyone. I would like to welcome you to the Thursday, May twenty ninth special special session public utilities advisory board meeting. This is our fourth meeting this year. My name is Lou Halkius, and I am the chair of this board, and we'll be conducting the meeting today. Michelle Ackman. Right there. Nathan Williams. Wilson. I'm sorry. Right there. And uh Phil Treeber. Phil. I think I'm here by phone. Thank you. Thank you. Our next order of business is public forum. Speakers will be called in the order that they signed up. If anyone was unable to sign up, they could speak at the end of the public forum. If you didn't sign up but would like to do so, please raise your hand so we can get your name and add it to the list. Please call the first public forum speaker. Daniel Bully. One minute. Hello. Hi, my name is Dan Bully. First of all, I I want to um sincerely thank the board for voting to recommend to the city council to sign the IMEA contract. I've been involved in the green building and sustainability movements for 20 years. I believe strongly in sustainability. I'm concerned about the fact that environmental sustainability is just one leg of a three-legged stool. And it's people plan it and uh people plan it and um money. All right. And the people part has been left out, and that doesn't work well. Uh I met with about a dozen residents uh last Friday, and we're looking into forming something called the Naperville Sustainability Project to spread the word of what real sustainability is. Um for instance, a lot of people don't realize that even though Washington state uh is much more progressive than Illinois if you look at the the federal elections, and yet they overwhelmingly voted to keep natural gas. And if you look into it, you found it was all the Democrats in Seattle that voted to do that. It's it's not a partisan issue. It's about money and it's about people. Um I would like to see the City of Naperville understand more about what real sustainability is. I did some calculations on the IMEA contract, and and I really what I'm asking to do is for the city to do their own calculations. I I would love to see projected rates in kilowatt hours. So in my projection, and you also have to look at if I did it a couple different ways. If you look at the fact that in two years we're gonna lose two major speaker plants in 2027 in Illinois, the projected power um load, increased load due to data centers across the country is gonna be four times the amount of power we have now. And the sad thing is that we don't people aren't gonna realize this till 2035 that we made a mistake. So I'm I like just some projections here. Um in 2040, if we're staying with the IMEA, my calculations say the the rate will be 15 cents an hour, and without IME, it'd be 19 cents an hour. You get up to 2050, 18 cents an hour, IMEA, 38 cents an hour without IMEA. Now these may not be thing, but I I would love to see some professional projections made on those so people can make an informed choice on this. Thank you very much.