The Lebanon Division of Electric is a wholly owned subsidiary of the City of Lebanon, Ohio. The City not only owns the electric generating plant, but the entire infrastructure, making this a unique operation for a town of over 17,000 citizens. This ensures that the needs of the public are best served in this area, because the city can be very responsive to the needs of the community.

The Division of Electric currently is staffed by sixteen personnel. The generating plant is capable of producing 32 Megawatts of power. The City has maintained its own generating capability through a combination of diesel fueled combustion engines and two diesel fueled gas-turbine engines. This eliminates the City's dependence on third party vendors. The generating system currently maintains a 12,470 volt primary voltage, with a transmission voltage of 69,000 to our various substations.

The Division of Electric currently provides 169 million kilowatt hours on average annual usage to the community. We provide power to the entire city, residential and commercial alike for approximately 8.0 cents per kilowatt hour.

The Division of Electric started in 1970, implementing underground utility service to the community, due to its greater reliability, less maintenance, and reduction of outages. This provided for a closed loop system that has significantly reduced loss of service to our customers.

The Division goes even further to save costs to our citizens by buying power from Cinergy (formerly Cincinnati Gas & Electric) at a rate lower than we can produce it ourselves. This utilizes the greater buying power of a larger community, while still maintaining our own independence through local power generation if needed.

The Lebanon Electric Division remains very innovative in delivering service to our customers through the use of the latest technology available. This not only provides service to our customers at the lowest rates, but also holds down personnel costs, resulting in a savings to the City through less employees.

The Division has been the recipient of many awards in the past for their innovative approach to delivering service. Awarded the AMP-OHIO 1995 INNOVATION AWARD for sponsoring a public affairs program for the citizens through a local radio station. The Division was awarded the AMP-OHIO 1990 INNOVATION AWARDS for developing an in-house automated application to track volatile PCB equipment. This aided greatly in complying with EPA regulations, and safety for the workers and citizens alike.

A new building was completed in 1996, to house the administrative section of the Division. This building is home to the latest in computerized generation monitoring and planning. The Division also installed a new SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. This allows remote monitoring of all electric distribution within the city. It provides a huge cost savings feature by allowing more work to be performed without increasing personnel.

This new system has also become part of a state-of-the-art Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network. This will provide the Electric Division the ability to do Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and provide a way to better control load management and monitoring of the entire system. As deregulation approaches in the Electric Industry, the City of Lebanon will now be better equipped to not only compete, but to provide the highest level of service.

The Lebanon Division of Electric is committed to providing the best service possible at the absolute lowest cost to our customers, the citizens of Lebanon. We will continue to provide these same high level services in the future.

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