Reliability Report -- 1999 - Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Pennsylvania Power Company
System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI)
1.8
1.6
Rolling 12-Month
Standard
1.4
Frequency
1.2
Benchmark
1.0
0.8
0.6
Mar-05 Jun-05 Sep-05 Dec-05 Mar-06
12 Months Ending
SAIFI remains well above the performance standard of 1.34 and
significantly above the benchmark of 1.12. Except for the 12 months ending
March 2005, SAIFI exceeded the standard through the first quarter of 2006.
It should be noted that the Joint Petition for Settlement in the investigation
of FirstEnergy’s reliability performance requires Penn Power to achieve an
established reliability benchmark for SAIDI by the end of 2007. The settlement
requires Penn Power to achieve at least a 30% improvement over the 2003
achieved SAIDI for the 12 months ending December 31, 2007. In addition, the
settlement requires Penn Power to achieve SAIDIs for the calendar years 2005
and 2006 that reflect values equal to or better than its achieved SAIDI for 2003.
The resulting settlement SAIDI milestones are 192 for the calendar years 2005
and 2006 and 134 for the calendar year 2007. By letter dated June 22, 2006,
Prosecutory Staff informed Penn Power that it is in violation of the Settlement
and requested that a specific remediation plan be implemented. Per the letter,
Prosecutory Staff informed Penn Power that if it does not adopt an acceptable
remediation plan, Prosecutory Staff will request that the Commission impose
penalties, including, but not limited to, fines for noncompliance with the
Settlement.
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