Sustainability results and operating statistics

SRP's Sustainable Portfolio achieved a result of 6.98% of retail requirements, compared with the FY11 goal of 5%, while operating statistics reflected a continued slowing in customer growth and a leveling of electric sales.

Megawatt-Hour (MWh) impacts of SRP's Sustainable Portfolio

  FY11 planned FY11 actual

Energy efficiency

   
Commercial demand-side management 200,639 240,509
Residential demand-side management 290,519 318,081
M-Power 179,945 177,966
Total energy efficiency 671,103 736,556
     

Renewable energy

   
Biomass 78,946 24,918
Fuel cell 1,314 955
Small hydropower (low-impact) 2,447 8,024
Hydropower (owned and purchased) 865,630 721,146
Landfill gas 21,027 28,154
Green gas (purchased landfill gas) 0 60,082
Solar 34,425 39,150
Wind purchases 193,602 259,938
Total renewable energy 1,197,391 1,142,367
Total for FY11 1,868,494 1,878,923
Total as a percentage of retail sales 6.75% 6.98%
     
Year-end banking reconciliation (MWh)    
Current-year Sustainable Portfolio resources   1,878,923
Less current-year Sustainable Portfolio requirement
(5% of retail requirements)
  -1,345,514
Excess resources available to be banked   533,409

FY11 operating statistics
May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2011

Electric

   
Electric customers, year-end   949,388
Electric service area (sq. mi.)   2,900
Peak — power system (MW)   7,438
Resources available to serve peak (MW)   8,512
Peak — SRP retail customers (MW)   6,350
Total electric sales (GWh)   31,960
     

Water

   
Water service area (sq. mi.)   375
Watershed (sq. mi.)   13,000
Water deliveries (af)   850,976*
Water storage capacity (af)   2,328,201*
Water in storage, year-end (af)   1,986,096*
Runoff (af)   233,912**
af = acre-feet, GWh = gigawatt hours, MW = megawatt, sq. mi. = square miles
*Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2010
**Jan. 1-May 1,2011
Letter from the general manager