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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".13" citation="COMAR 20.50.12.13" title_num="20" subtitle_num="50" chapter_num="12" heading="Major Outage Event Reporting.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Written Reports. Each utility shall file a written report with the Commission within 35 calendar days of the end of a major outage event.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Contents. The written report shall contain:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The total number of Maryland customers served by the utility;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The date and time when the major outage event started;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The date and time when all sustained interruptions in Maryland related to the major outage event were restored;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>The total number of Maryland customers who experienced a sustained interruption of service related to the major outage event;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>The total number of customer interruption hours experienced by customers reported under §B(4) of this regulation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>The average duration of customer service interruption, expressed in hours, and calculated by dividing the total number of customer interruption hours reported in §B(5) of this regulation by the total number of Maryland customers who experienced an interruption reported in §B(4) of this regulation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>The maximum number of Maryland customers who concurrently experienced a sustained interruption related to the major outage event and the date and time this occurred;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>The number of Maryland customers who experienced a sustained interruption recorded at a maximum of 6-hour intervals throughout the major outage event;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Information about requests for outside assistance, including the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Name of the organization to which the request was made;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Date and time of the request; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Resources requested;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Information about outside assistance received, including the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Name of the organization providing crews and the nature of the assistance, i.e., mutual assistance, third-party contractor crew normally dedicated to the utility, additional third-party contractor crew, or other (explain in report);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Date and time of crew arrivals and departures;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Number and types of vehicles;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Total number of personnel;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Number of personnel on primary overhead line crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Number of personnel on secondary overhead line crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Number of personnel on tree trimming crews; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Number of other personnel.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Information about electric utility crews working on restoration, including the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Number and types of vehicles;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Total number of personnel;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Number of personnel on primary overhead line crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Number of personnel on secondary overhead line crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Number of personnel on damage assessment crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Number of personnel on tree trimming crews; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Number of other personnel.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>The following information about communications with customers:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The total number of calls received by the utility during each hour of the major outage event;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The total number of calls answered by the utility’s voice response system, customer service representatives, and any high volume call systems during each hour of the major outage event;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The total number of customer service representatives logged into the call center and supporting phone systems actively taking or waiting to take customer calls on an hourly basis during the major outage event; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>On a daily basis during the length of the outage and for the entire major outage event, the percentage of all calls that were offered and answered by the utility’s voice response system, customer service representatives, and any high volume call systems within a 30-second timeframe and within a 60-second timeframe.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>With regard to system damage, the number of each of the following occurring during restoration:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Poles replaced as a percentage of total utility owned or partially owned poles;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Distribution transformers replaced;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Fuses replaced;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Downed wires;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Substations with damaged equipment and substations outages due to loss of one or multiple supplies;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>State highways blocked due to electric utility wires that are referred to the utility for remediation; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Traffic signals reported out of service by government agencies that are referred to the utility for remediation;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>Any issues concerning the availability of materials or equipment that affected restoration progress, including a description of how any unavailability affected restoration, and a description of the emergency measures taken to resolve the issues;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>A self-assessment, including lessons learned and future plans to improve service restoration efforts during major outage events;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>A description of the manner in which customers were informed of the status of the outages in their geographic area by means of the customer call center or by other means of customer communications;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>A description of the manner in which the utility informed elected officials, government officials, and members of the public of the status of the outage and restoration efforts;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(18)">
      <text>A description of the manner in which the utility estimated restoration times;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(19)">
      <text>A description of any areas where the utility did not comply with its major outage event response plan;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(20)">
      <text>The number of customer service interruptions under §B(4) of this regulation and the number of customer service interruption hours under §B(5) of this regulation categorized by outage caused by each one of the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>All outage causes typically provided in annual performance reports pursuant to Regulation .11 of this chapter;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>A description of the outage causes due to physical security or cybersecurity attacks;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>A description of any outage causes due to transmission or energy supply disruptions;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>A description of any other outage causes due to natural weather phenomena not typically encountered;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Ice accumulation on conductors; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Each other direct cause of interruption of service to 5 percent or more of total customers interrupted, listing and providing a descriptive name for each cause;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(21)">
      <text>For each interruption to normal expected information technology systems used to manage a major outage event, details on deficiencies experienced in these systems including dates, time, and duration of any interruptions to normal expected functionality for the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Real time operating systems used to monitor and control the event including, but not limited to, distribution automation systems, energy management systems, and outage management systems;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Advanced meter infrastructure systems;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Web-based outage reporting systems;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Web-based outage information systems such as outage maps;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Phone systems;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Mobile data systems used to receive information from field crews;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>The data interface that provides outage information to the Maryland Department of Emergency Management outage map application; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Any utility business systems directly impacted by the major outage event;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(22)">
      <text>The percentage of total Maryland customers who had service restored in 50 hours pursuant to Regulation .06B of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(23)">
      <text>If the company could not safely work due to high wind conditions for the major outage event, an explanation of the company policy and how this impacted restoration;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(24)">
      <text>The percentage of calls that are answered within 30 seconds, the abandoned call percentage rate, and the average speed of answer pursuant to Regulation .08D of this chapter, except measured only for the duration of the major outage event;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(25)">
      <text>The average amount of time customers were put on hold for every hour during the major outage event after the customer selected the option to talk to a call center representative in the electric company’s Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Before talking to a call center representative; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Before dropping off the call after waiting unsuccessfully to reach a call center representative.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(26)">
      <text>For the duration of the major outage event, the number of customers experiencing multiple sustained interruptions, categorized by the number of multiple sustained interruptions, such as the number of customers experiencing “n” sustained interruptions, where n= 1, 2, 3, etc.;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(27)">
      <text>The downed wire response performance to a government emergency responder guarded downed electric utility wire within 3 hours after notification by a fire department, police department, or 911 emergency dispatcher pursuant to Regulation .07A of this chapter, except measured only for this major outage event;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(28)">
      <text>The number of peak sustained interruptions restored by county and municipal jurisdiction for the duration of the major outage event;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(29)">
      <text>The number of customers sustained interruptions caused by off-right-of-way trees;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(30)">
      <text>All press releases, if any, issued and details on the date, time, location, and company participants in all press conferences held, if any;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(31)">
      <text>The date and time centralized and regional emergency operations centers, district headquarters, and mutual assistance staging areas activated for the major outage event were operational completed;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(32)">
      <text>Electric system infrastructure that was damage assessed and how this damage assessment information was used to establish a Global ETR;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(33)">
      <text>The number of Maryland critical facilities who experienced a sustained interruption recorded at a maximum of 6-hour intervals throughout the major outage event; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(34)">
      <text>The percentage critical facility sustained interruptions restored within 24 hours and 48 hours of the start of the major outage event.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The Commission may designate a specific report format for the information required to be included in the written report mandated under this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>