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Elk Rivetr <br /> Municipal Utilities <br /> 322 King Avenue phone: 763.441.2020 <br /> Elk River, MN 55330 Fax 763 441.8099 <br /> December 30, 2003 <br /> To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission <br /> John Dietz <br /> Jerry Taale <br /> James Tralle <br /> From: Bryan Adams <br /> Subject: Electric Outage Report <br /> The Minnesota Energy, Security and Reliability Act enacted in 2001, contains a <br /> distribution reliability section. One section of this legislation requires, on an annual <br /> basis, an outage report be submitted to their governing bodies, which in our case is the <br /> Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission. <br /> Your staff for a number of years, has been documenting electrical outages to keep track <br /> of causes, number of customers out of power and for how long in an effort to track trends <br /> and resolve continued outage problems. This tracking now has the benefit of complying <br /> with the distribution reliability section of this legislation. Our electric outage reporting <br /> has been formalized so we can better track and analyze the number and causes of our <br /> outages. The attached two page spread sheet reflects the outage history for 2003. In <br /> summary, the distribution of outages are as follows. <br /> Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association(MMUA) is currently drafting a Municipal <br /> Utility Distribution Reliability Standard that complies with the requirements of the <br /> Minnesota Energy, Security, and Reliability Act. This commission will need to adopt <br /> that standard when it becomes available. <br />