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Mitigation/Hardening There are several things that co-ops can do to “harden” the system, but they are not cheap or without complications Research projects Preventative Maintenance Standards and materialsTRANSCRIPT
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Cooperative Continuity Management
Bill WillinghamFlorida Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc.Tallahassee, FL
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Mitigation/Hardening
• There are several things that co-ops can do to “harden” the system, but they are not cheap or without complications• Research projects• Preventative Maintenance• Standards and materials
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Mitigation/Hardening (cont.)
• Research projects• PURC• RUS• CRN
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Overhead
• Pole Inspections • Our members meet the RUS standard• New pole attachment agreements
• Construction Standards and Materials• Using stronger poles and modified
standards on new construction and rebuilds
• Vegetation Management • Best bang for the $$ for most co-ops
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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
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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 all of the trees, debris, tornados, or microbursts
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Underground
•Problems–flexibility in rural areas–cost–longer non-disaster outages–coastal areas–flood prone areas–trees
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Restoration
• Each co-op has its own restoration plan, and these plans continue to evolve as we learn from our own experiences and from helping others.
• FECA has a comprehensive plan for coordinating mutual aid and otherwise assisting its members
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Approximately 900 coops and 2,000 municipally-owned electric utilities
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Restoration (cont.)
• The utilities and the EOC have worked very well together.