1.7. ERMUSR 04-09-2019 Elk River
Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
TO: FROM:
ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent
MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:
April 9, 2019 1.7
SUBJECT:
Recognition of American Public Power Association Certificate of Excellence in Reliability
ACTION REQUESTED:
Receive the APPA Certificate of Excellence in Reliability
BACKGROUND\DISCUSSION:
The American Public Power Association (APPA) recently honored 147 public power utilities with
a "Certificate of Excellence in Reliability" for reliable performance.These utilities have
significantly outperformed the electric industry nationwide averages as gathered by the Energy
Information Administration. APPA collects utility data from nearly 460 public power utilities
nationwide that track their reliability data via the eReliability Tracker. Of those utilities, 277
were considered to have sound data that was included in the 2018 Annual Benchmarking
Report.
The tracker performs calculations for System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI),
System Average Interruption Frequency Index(SAIFI), Customer Average Interruption Duration
Index (CAIDI), Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index(MAIFI) and Average Service
Availability Index(ASAI) and helps utilities to collect, categorize, and analyze their outage
information.
According to the numbers for 2018, ERMU's SAIDI was only 10 minutes (excluding major
events), compared to the industry average of 129 minutes (excluding major events). In simple
terms, that means that, averaged out over our 12,158 distribution customers, for 2018 each
customer could expect to have a total outage time of about 10 minutes;that is 125 minutes
shorter than the national average for outages.
The American Public Power Association would like to commend Elk River Municipal Utilities for
achieving "exceptional electric reliability in 2018".
ATTACHMENT:
• APPA Certificate of Excellence in Reliability
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OF EXCELLENCE
IN RELIABILITY
This is to acknowledge that
Elk River Municipal Utilities
has significantly exceeded the average for all U.S. electric utilities*
for reliable electric service.The utility participates in the American
Public Power Association's e-Reliability Tracker program to track its
power outages and restoration against national benchmarks.
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Senior Vice President,Engineering Services ASSOCIATION
'As reported by the Energy Information Administration Powering Strong Communities
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