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Interactive voice response system with speech recognition: started in 2001, completed in 2004.
Advanced meter infrastructure: started in 2007, completed in 2013. Note that the three major PG&E projects that were designed to help measure and manage outages were started and completed per the bullets below.
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It is determined by taking the total outage minutes for all customer sustained outages (SAIDI) and dividing it by the total number of customer sustained outages (SAIFI).įor the record, PG&E's historical track record for these metrics follow.Ĭombined Transmission and Distribution Indices (excludes planned and ISO Outages)
Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI): the average duration of sustained outages. Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index (MAIFI): the number of times the average PG&E customer is interrupted by momentary outages (lasting 5 minutes or less) each year. System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI): the number of times the average PG&E customer experiences a sustained outage in a given year. System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI): the amount of time in minutes that the average PG&E customer experiences sustained outages (being without power for more than five minutes) in a given year. The following definitions were pulled from Pacific Gas And Electric Company's 2017 Annual Electric Reliability Report with some slight edits by the author. There are four widely recognized metrics for power reliability.
#Restoration simulation contingency planning pss sincal software#
This paper will focus on metrics, system and software solutions. The first part of this series (linked below) focused on the history of outage management, and hardware solutions that reduce the number and duration of outages.