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Elk River Municipal Utilities Funded by a grant from the Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) Program, the eReliability Tracker Annual Report was created by the American Public Power Association (the Association) to assist utilities in their efforts to understand and analyze their electric system. This report focuses on distribution system reliability across the country and is customized to each utility. The data used to generate this report reflect activity in the eReliability Tracker from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. Note that if you currently do not have a full year of data in the system, this analysis may not properly reflect your utility's statistics since it only includes data recorded as of February 3, 2018; therefore, any changes made after that date are not represented herein. I. General Overview Reliability reflects both historic and ongoing engineering investment decisions within a utility. Proper use of reliability metrics ensures that a utility is not only performing its intended function, but also is providing service in a consistent and effective manner. Even though the primary use of reliability statistics is for self- evaluation, utilities can use these statistics to compare with data from similar utilities. However, differences such as electrical network configuration, ambient environment, weather conditions, and number of customers served typically limit most utility-to-utility comparisons. Due to the diverse range of utilities that use the eReliability Tracker, this report endeavors to group utilities by size and region to improve comparative analyses while reducing differences. Since this report contains overall data for all utilities that use the eReliability Tracker, it is important to consider the effect that a particularly large or small utility can have on the rest of the data. To ease the issues associated with comparability, reliability statistics are calculated for each utility with their respective customer weight taken into account prior to being aggregated with other utilities. This means that all utilities are equally weighted and all individual statistics are developed on a per customer basis. The aggregate statistics displayed in this report are calculated from utilities that experienced more than two outages in 2017. Also, utilities that experienced no outages this year, or did not upload any data, will have None/Null values in their report for their utility-specific data and were not included in the aggregate analysis. The aggregate statistics provided in the following sections of the report are based on data from 253 utilities. 2 205