I. Objective:
To establish a framework for maintaining and improving electric service reliability through defined performance standards, reporting practices, and oversight by the Board of Trustees.
II. Policy Content:
To list and determine the various practices and set of standards for People’s Electric Cooperative (PEC) to provide an acceptable level of service reliability to its members and define the reporting parameters.
III. Provision:
- Vegetation Management Plan
PEC will maintain a Vegetation Management Plan, which will be reviewed by the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. - Reliability Program Reporting
- PEC shall submit a monthly report to the Board of Trustees detailing the Industry Standard Reliability Indices in accordance with the most current version of IEEE Standard 1366.
Reports shall also include information related to any major events impacting system reliability. - Annually, PEC shall perform an analysis of the worst-performing five percent (5%) of circuits, as identified by outage cause codes, to assess whether immediate corrective actions are necessary to improve reliability performance.
PEC shall also provide a summary of all equipment-related outages and associated cause codes for the preceding 12-month period as part of its regular reporting.
- PEC shall submit a monthly report to the Board of Trustees detailing the Industry Standard Reliability Indices in accordance with the most current version of IEEE Standard 1366.
IV. Responsibility
It will be the responsibility of the Exec. VP/CEO, Sr. Manager of Distribution Operations, and Operating Services Unit Manager to properly administer this policy.
This policy supersedes and cancels all other existing policies and instructions which may conflict with its provisions.
Approved by the Board of Trustees
- Effective Date: June 25, 2004
- Revised Date: August 28, 2009
- Revised Date: August 27, 2020
- Revised Date: September 25, 2025