Reliability Report -- 1999 - Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

14.0% of total incidents, 18.5% of customers affected and 28.5% of interruption
minutes.
Pennsylvania Electric Company
2005 Outage Causes
Wind
Vehicle
Vandalism
Unknown
UG Dig-Up
Trees - Preventable
Trees - Not Preventable
Switching Error
Previous Lightning
Overload
Other Utility - Non-Electric
Other Electric Utility
Object Contact With Line
Line Failure
Lightning
Ice
Human Error - Non-Company
Human Error - Company
Forced Outage
Fire
Equipment Failure
Customer Equipment
Contamination
Bird
Animal
Customer Minutes Interrupted
Customers Affected
Number of Incidents
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Percent of Outages
Pennsylvania Power Company
Penn Power’s reliability performance summary was filed as a joint report
submitted on behalf of the three Pennsylvania operating companies of
FirstEnergy: Met-Ed, Penelec and Penn Power.
On May 26, 2004, FirstEnergy filed a Petition for the Amendment of
Benchmarks. 25 On February 17, 2006, the Commission entered an Order
modifying the benchmarks and standards for the three FirstEnergy companies.
Penn Power’s CAIDI benchmark was increased from 92 minutes to 101 minutes;
the SAIFI benchmark was increased from 1.02 interruptions to 1.12 interruptions;
and the SAIDI benchmark was increased from 94 minutes to 113 minutes.
25 Docket No. P-00042115.
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Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission