New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Chapter 5 - ELECTRIC SERVICE › Subchapter 8 - ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SERVICE RELIABILITY AND QUALITY STANDARDS › Section 14:5-8.9 - Major event report

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The EDC shall, within 20 business days
				after the end of a major event, submit a report to the Board *and Rate
				Counsel*, which shall include the following:
1. The date and time when the EDC's storm or
				major event center opened and closed;
2. The total number of customers out of
				service over the course of the major event over four hour intervals, identified
				by operating area or circuit area. For purposes of this count, the starting
				time shall be when the storm center opens and the ending time shall be when the
				storm center closes. Regardless of when the storm center is closed, the EDC
				shall report the date and time when the last customer affected by a major event
				is restored;
3. The number of
				trouble locations and classifications, damaged poles, damaged transformers, and
				estimated miles of wire replaced;
4. The time at which the mutual aid FTEs and
				non-company contractor FTEs were requested, arrived for duty, and were
				released, and the mutual aid and non-contractor response(s) to the request(s)
				for assistance;
5. A timeline
				profile of the number of company line FTEs, mutual aid FTEs, non-company
				contractor line FTEs, and tree FTEs working on restoration activities during
				the duration of the major event;
6.
				A timeline profile of the number of company FTEs sent to an affected operating
				area to assist in the restoration effort;
7. A summary of emergency management contacts
				made by the EDC over the course of the outages, including contacts with county
				office of emergency management (OEM) coordinators, municipal OEM coordinators,
				mayors, business administrators, police chiefs, and fire chiefs;
8. A summary of any public communications
				made by the EDC before, and during, the course of the outages, including
				communications through radio, newspapers, television, social media, and the
				EDC's website;
9. A list in
				sequential restoration order of all outage events that were restored, the
				number of customers restored associated with these events, and the time at
				which they were restored;
10. A
				list of all individual outage events that states the municipality, county, and
				number of customers affected for each event;
11. A summary statement regarding when high
				winds prevented restoration personnel from performing their job
				functions;
12. A list detailing the
				time and date of all requests made by the EDC to other utilities, including
				parent companies, subsidiaries, and/or "sister" companies, and/or outside
				contractors or subcontractors for mutual assistance. The nature of each request
				should also be specified;
13. The
				number of roads cleared of utility infrastructure;
14. A justification for this incident to be
				considered a major event, if the 48-hour threshold to reach
10 percent or more customer outages within an operating area
				  is exceeded;
15. A summary
				of telecommunications sector issues that hampered restoration; and
16. A list of the estimated times of
				restoration (ETR) issued by the EDC throughout the restoration (global and
				operating areas ETRs).