N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 16 § 97.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 97.1 - Definitions

For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) Interruption. An interruption is the loss of service for five minutes or more, for one or more customers, which is the result of one or more component failures. For example, a downed house service is one interruption; a burned 69 kV tap that results in outages of several 13 kV primary and branch circuits that in turn cause service interruptions in one interruption; one disconnected hot leg of a tri-plex house service, i.e., a "half-light" condition, is one interruption.

(b) Component. A component is a piece of equipment, a line, a section of line, or a group of items which is an entity for purposes of reporting, analyzing and predicting interruptions.

(c) Major storm. A major storm is a period of adverse weather during which service interruptions affect at least 10 percent of the customers in an operating area and/or result in customers being without electric service for durations of at least 24 hours.

(d) Customer. A customer is any electrical service point for which a separate bill is rendered (i.e., each meter represents a customer).

(e) Duration. Duration (reported in customer-hours) is the five-minute or greater period from the initiation of an interruption to a customer until service has been restored to that customer. Total duration is the sum of the durations in that period. Sufficient data should be kept on each interruption to be able to express the duration in customer minutes.

(f) Customers affected. A customer is affected by an interruption if that customer' s electrical service is interrupted.

(g) Average number of customers served. The average number of customers served shall be the number of active metered customer accounts as of the last day of the prior year or the last day of the prior month for which electric sales revenue would be recorded under Uniform System of Accounts 440, 442, 445, 446 and 448.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 16 § 97.1