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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 20.50.12.02" title_num="20" subtitle_num="50" chapter_num="12" heading="System-Wide Reliability Standards.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Reliability Data. Each utility shall collect and maintain the data required to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Provide in its annual performance reports the reliability information specified in this regulation; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Demonstrate compliance with the reliability standards.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Reliability Reporting Period.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in §B(2) of this regulation, the data used by a utility to determine annual reliability performance shall be from the immediately preceding calendar year.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The data used by a utility to determine the poorest performing feeders and multiple device activations shall include outage data from the 12-month period ending September 30 of the immediately preceding calendar year.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Reliability Standards — System-Wide Indices.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A utility shall collect and maintain the data necessary to report CAIDI, SAIDI, and SAIFI for its system and each operating district, consisting of all feeders assigned to Maryland under Regulation .03D of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>For an investor-owned utility, each index shall be calculated and reported in the annual performance report using the following sets of input data:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>All interruption data, including and excluding planned outages;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>All interruption data minus major outage event interruption data; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>For the calendar year 2020 and each calendar year thereafter, all interruption data minus the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) major event days.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>For cooperatively owned utilities, each index shall be calculated and reported in the annual performance report using the following sets of input data:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>All interruption data, including and excluding planned outages;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>All interruption data minus major outage event interruption data;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>For the calendar year 2020 and each calendar year thereafter, all interruption data minus the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) major event days;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>All interruption data minus major outage event interruption data and minus outage data resulting from an outage event occurring on another utility’s electric system; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>For the calendar year 2020 and each calendar year thereafter, all interruption data minus the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) major event days minus outage data resulting from an outage event occurring on another utility’s electric system.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>SAIDI and SAIFI Standards.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The SAIDI in minutes and SAIFI reliability standards for the calendar years noted and thereafter, unless changed by the Commission, are as follows:</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Each investor-owned utility's annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standard shall be measured against its system-wide annual SAIDI and SAIFI result, including all interruption data minus major outage event interruption data and consisting of all feeders assigned to Maryland under Regulation .03D of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>For the calendar year 2020 and each calendar year thereafter, each investor-owned utility’s annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standard shall be measured against its system-wide annual SAIDI and SAIFI result, including all interruption data minus the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) major event days and consisting of all feeders assigned to Maryland under Regulation .03D of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Each cooperatively owned utility's annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standard shall be measured against its system-wide annual SAIDI and SAIFI result, including all interruption data minus major outage event interruption data and minus outage data resulting from an outage event occurring on another utility's electric system.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>For the calendar year 2020 and each calendar year thereafter, each cooperatively owned utility’s annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standard shall be measured against its system-wide annual SAIDI and SAIFI result, including all interruption data minus the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) major event days minus outage data resulting from an outage event occurring on another utility’s electric system.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>A utility's annual SAIDI result shall be equal to or less than its annual SAIDI reliability standard established in §D(1) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>A utility's annual SAIFI result shall be equal to or less than its annual SAIFI reliability standard established in §D(1) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>SAIDI and SAIFI Standards after 2015.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For the calendar year 2016 and each calendar year thereafter, the Commission shall establish SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standards and any other appropriate reliability requirements for each utility.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>By March 1, 2014 and every 4 years thereafter, unless otherwise directed by the Commission, each utility:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Shall file proposed annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standards for its Maryland service territory;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Shall file corresponding cost estimates associated with meeting the proposed SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standards as specified by the Commission; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>May propose any other appropriate reliability requirement for the Commission’s consideration along with supporting comments.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The proposed annual SAIDI and SAIFI reliability standards filed by each utility shall be for a 4-calendar-year period, at a minimum.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>If a utility fails to satisfy the standard §D(6) or (7) of this regulation, it shall provide a corrective action plan, preferably in its annual performance report but by no later than April 1.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>