The City of Augusta’s electric system was established in 1913. Power Plant One was built in 1929 and expanded through the years with the addition of generators in 1939, 1949, 1951, 1956 and 1964 for a total capacity of 9,731 kilowatts. In 1968, the City built a new plant and installed two new 4,000-Kilowatt generators. In 1981, the City added a new 6,000-Kilowatt generator and again in 2004 a new 6,620-Kilowatt generator was added giving the City a combined total of 30,351 Kilowatts of capacity.
The city is interconnected with the transmission power grid by a 69,000-volt line and stepping it down to a distribution voltage of 12,470 volts. The capacity of the City’s interconnecting transmission tie is 28,000 Kilowatts.
The City has five linemen and eight power plant employees to operate its generation and distribution facilities that serve 510 commercial and 3,777 residential customers.
The City of Augusta is a founding member of the
Kansas Power Pool. The power pool was formed in 2005 by a group of Kansas municipalities in order to utilize all of the member cities' resources, including internal generation and purchased power contracts. This was done to help hold down the member cities' power costs. The City of Augusta currently purchases wholeslae power from the Kansas Power Pool.
For more information about your utility billing, visit our
Utility Office.
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