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Cooperative Continuity Management
Bill WillinghamFlorida Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc.Tallahassee, FL
Approximately 900 coops and 2,000 municipally-owned electric utilities
Mitigation/Hardening
• There are several things that co-ops can do to “harden” the system, but they are not cheap or without complications
Overhead
• Pole Inspections• Vegetation Management• Design/Construction Standards
Vegetation Management
Coops Heavily
Damaged
Percent of
Customers
Longest Outage
Frances 6 50 12 days
Jeanne 9 73 8 days
Ivan 3 54 15 days
Dennis 2 64 5 days
Design/Construction Standards
• Overhead facilities can be built to withstand higher winds if money is not an issue, but even the strongest designs cannot withstand trees, debris, tornados, or microbursts– Florida Keys EC is building to
extreme wind standard
Underground
•Problems–flexibility in rural areas–cost–longer non-disaster outages–coastal areas–flood prone areas–trees
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