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Elk Riv4r,=�,** <br />- <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />April 8, 2025 <br />1.7 <br />SUBJECT: <br />Recognition APPA Certificate <br />of Excellence in Reliability <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION: <br />The American Public Power Association (APPA) recently honored 255 public power utilities with <br />a "Certificate of Excellence in Reliability" for reliable performance. These utilities have <br />significantly outperformed the electric industry nationwide averages as gathered by the Energy <br />Information Administration. APPA collected data from public power utilities that subscribe to <br />APPA's eReliability Tracker software to track their reliability data. Of those utilities, 350 were <br />considered to have sound data that was included in the 2024 Annual Benchmarking Report. <br />The tracker performs calculations for System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) which <br />measures the average outage time per customer on the system, System Average Interruption <br />Frequency Index (SAIFI) which measures how often a customer on our system could expect to <br />experience an outage, and Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) which <br />measures averaged outage duration of all customers that actually experienced an outage. <br />The report also includes calculations for Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index <br />(MAIFI) and Average Service Availability Index (ASAI) which helps utilities to compare, collect, <br />categorize, and analyze their outage information. <br />For 2024, ERMU's SAIDI was only 42.083 minutes (excluding major events), compared to the <br />industry average of 148 minutes (excluding major events). In simple terms, that means that <br />averaged out over our 13,797 electric customers in 2024, each customer could expect to have a <br />total outage time of about 42 minutes; that is 107 minutes shorter than the national average <br />for outages among all utilities within the United States. <br />I would like to recognize the Elk River Municipal Utilities team for their continuous devotion to <br />providing reliable electric service to all our customers throughout 2024. This national <br />recognition is confirmation of the outstanding reliable service we provide each and every day. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />7 <br />