1. Reliability Valuation
John Engle.
04/26/16

2. Reliability importance is only exceeded by safety and overloading
2/17/2019
Reliability Value
CNP does not directly assign a dollar value (benefit/cost) for reliability (SAIDI) improvement
Rule-of-thumb methodology
Difficult to measure success
Reliability importance is only exceeded by safety and overloading
Corporate goal linked to employees’ annual pay adjustments
PUC Tx regulations & penalties (10 / 300% circuits)

3. Value Programs 10% - 300% Vegetation - ~$20 mil
2/17/2019
Value Programs
10% - 300%
Extensive root cause analysis
Deadlines set to complete issues
Proactive approach created
Vegetation - ~$20 mil
Service area - ~$16 mil
Automation - ~$5 mil

4. Distribution Inspection Program
2/17/2019
Value Projects
Remote analysis
AMS data
Outage detection
Transformer loading
Voltage detection
Automated devices / sensors
Distribution Inspection Program
Pole-by-pole
Ground line treatment
IR Inspections

5. Questions

6. Thanks!