The Electric Department has a budgeted staff of 198 employees who provide such diverse services as operating, maintaining and dispatching electric service, engineering, system planning, administrative and financial management, marketing, customer services, power trading, outdoor Wi-Fi services and dark fiber leasing services, all of which work together to make SVP successful for the City and its residents. The SVP Fiber program supports and maintains SVP's fiber network for Santa Clara's Electric Utility by managing its fiber infrastructure (i.e. fiber conduit, cable, manholes/handholes, splicing termination and testing services).