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J~ <br />Elk River ---1 <br />___. <br />1Vlunicipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway <br />Elk River, MN 55330 <br />.lanuary 3, 2005 <br />To: Elk River 1~~Iunicipal Utilities Commission <br />.lerrv Takle <br />James Tralle <br />.lohn Dietz <br />Frorn: Bryan Adams <br />Subject: Electric Outage Report <br />phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.491.8099 <br />"fhe 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 2004. In <br />summary, the distribution of outages, are as follows. <br />