b)
Annual Report. On or before June 1 of each year, each jurisdictional entity, except
for jurisdictional entities exempt under Section
411.110(b),
shall file with the Chief Clerk of the Commission an annual report for the previous
calendar year submitted under oath and verified by an individual responsible for the
jurisdictional entity's transmission and distribution reliability.
1) The data requirements incorporated in the
annual report are not meant to replace timely reports on outages when they occur or
are remedied as required by other provisions of this Part.
2) Supporting data used for more than one purpose
or calculation need be submitted only once in each annual report, if submitted with
clear cross-references. Data should be consistent and differences reconciled to the
extent possible.
3) The annual report
shall include the information listed in this subsection (b)(3).
A) A plan for future investment and, where
necessary, reliability improvements for the jurisdictional entity's transmission and
distribution facilities that will ensure continued reliable delivery of energy to
customers and provide the delivery reliability needed for fair and open competition,
along with the estimated cost of implementing the plan and any changes to the plan
from the previous annual report.
i) The plan must
cover all operating areas, including a description of the relevant characteristics
of each operating area and the age and condition of the jurisdictional entity's
equipment and facilities in each operating area.
ii) The plan shall cover a period of no less than
three years following the year in which the report was filed.
iii) The plan shall identify all foreseeable
reliability challenges and describe specific projects for addressing each.
iv) The plan shall provide a timetable for
achievement of the plan's goals.
v) The
plan shall report and address all unresolved reliability complaints about the
jurisdictional entity's system received from other utilities, independent system
operators, and alternative retail electric suppliers.
vi) The plan shall report the specific actions, if
any, the jurisdictional entity is taking to address the concerns raised in
complaints received from other utilities, independent system operators, and
alternative retail electric suppliers.
vii) The plan must consider all interruption
causes listed in subsection (b)(3)(D).
viii) The plan must consider the effects on
customers and the cost of reducing the number of interruptions reported as required
by subsection (b)(3)(C).
B) A
report of the jurisdictional entity's implementation of its plan filed pursuant to
subsection (b)(3)(A) for the previous annual reporting period, including an
identification of significant deviations from the first year of the previous plan
and the reasons for the deviations.
C)
The number and duration of planned and unplanned interruptions for the annual
reporting period and their impacts on customers.
D) The number and causes of controllable
interruptions for the annual reporting period.
E) Customer service interruptions that were due
solely to the actions or inactions of another utility, another jurisdictional
entity, independent system operator, or alternative retail electric supplier for the
annual reporting period.
F) A comparison
of interruption frequency and duration for customers buying electric energy from the
jurisdictional entity versus customers buying electric energy from another utility
or alternative retail electric supplier for the annual reporting period. A
jurisdictional entity may base this comparison on each customer's supplier as of
December 31 of each year. A jurisdictional entity need not include this information
for customers whose electric energy supplier is not known to the jurisdictional
entity.
G) A report of the age, current
condition, reliability and performance of the jurisdictional entity's existing
transmission and distribution facilities, which shall include, without limitation,
the data listed in this subsection (b)(3)(G). In analyzing and reporting the age of
the jurisdictional entity's plant and equipment, the jurisdictional entity may
utilize book depreciation. Statistical estimation and analysis may be used when
actual ages and conditions of facilities are not readily available. The use of these
techniques shall be disclosed in the report.
i) A
qualitative characterization of the condition of the jurisdictional entity's system
defining the criteria used in making the qualitative assessment, and explaining why
they are appropriate.
ii) A summary of
the jurisdictional entity's interruptions and voltage variances reportable under
this Part, including the reliability indices for the annual reporting
period.
iii) The jurisdictional entity's
expenditures for transmission construction and maintenance for the annual reporting
period expressed in constant 1998 dollars, the ratio of those expenditures to the
jurisdictional entity's transmission investment, and the average remaining
depreciation lives of the entity's transmission facilities, expressed as a
percentage of total depreciation lives.
iv) The jurisdictional entity's expenditures for
distribution construction and maintenance for the annual reporting period expressed
in constant 1998 dollars, the ratio of those expenditures to the jurisdictional
entity's distribution investment, and the average remaining depreciation lives of
the entity's distribution facilities, expressed as a percentage of total
depreciation lives.
v) The results of a
customer satisfaction survey completed during the annual reporting period and
covering reliability, customer service, and customer understanding of the
jurisdictional entity's services and prices.
vi) An overview pertaining to the number and
substance of customers' reliability complaints for the annual reporting period and
their distribution over the jurisdictional entity's operating areas.
H) A table showing the achieved level
of each of the three reliability indices of each operating area for the annual
reporting period (provided, however, that for any reporting period commencing before
April 1, 1998, a jurisdictional entity will not be required to report the CAIFI
reliability index).
I) A list showing
the worst-performing circuits for each operating area for the annual reporting
period with the understanding that the designation of circuits as "worst-performing
circuits" shall not, in and of itself, indicate a violation of this Part.
J) A statement of the operating and maintenance
history of circuits designated as worst-performing circuits; a description of any
action taken or planned to improve the performance of any such circuit (which shall
include information concerning the cost of that action); and a schedule for
completion of any such action. (The jurisdictional entity may decide, based on cost
considerations or other factors, that it should take no action to improve the
performance of one or more circuits designated as worst-performing circuits. If the
jurisdictional entity decides to take no action to improve the performance of one or
more circuits designated as worst-performing circuits, the jurisdictional entity
shall explain its decision in its annual report.)
K) Commencing June 10, 2001, tables or graphical
representations covering, for the last three years, all of the jurisdictional
entity's customers, and showing, in ascending order, the total number of customers
that experienced a set number of interruptions during the year (i.e., the number of
customers, who experienced zero interruptions, the number of customers who
experienced one interruption, etc.).
L)
Commencing June 10, 2001, for those customers who experienced interruptions in
excess of the service reliability targets, a list of every customer, identified by a
unique number assigned by the jurisdictional entity and not the customer's name or
account number, the number of interruptions and interruption duration experienced in
each of the three preceding years, and the number of consecutive years in which the
customer has experienced interruptions in excess of the service reliability
targets.
M) The name, address and
telephone number of a jurisdictional entity representative who can be contacted for
additional information regarding the annual report.
