ComEd Sets a Record in First Half of 2015 for Reliability
July 02 2015 - 6:51PM
Business Wire
Customers reap smart grid benefits - less
outages and faster power restoration
Despite more severe weather conditions, including recent
tornadoes, ComEd has produced its best reliability ever for the
first half of a year. For the first six months of 2015, ComEd
avoided more than 879,000 customer interruptions on the system.
With passage of the Smart Grid law in 2011, ComEd embarked on a
$2.6 billion program to modernize the power system in northern
Illinois. Through these investments which include smart switches
that reroute power around potential problem areas, new storm
hardening and vegetation management solutions, and cable
replacement, in addition to the other ongoing programs, nearly
5,000,000 customer interruptions have been avoided since January
2012 through first six months of 2015. Last year alone, more than
1.5 million interruptions were prevented, due to the reliability
improvements ComEd is making to its system.
“Preventing outages is one of our main goals, because the best
outage is the one that never happens,” said Terence R. Donnelly,
Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, ComEd. “Our
investments in smart grid technology and storm hardening are
fulfilling the promise we made to reduce outages and improve the
reliability of our system for our customers.”
In addition to reliability improvement, EIMA work has supported
3,600 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Illinois, including
approximately 1,400 FTE jobs at the utility and its
contractors.
“ComEd’s continued infrastructure investment aimed at
modernizing and bringing innovative digital equipment to the grid
is an important component to sustaining Illinois’ economic growth,”
said Todd Maisch, President and CEO of the Illinois Chamber of
Commerce. “We are pleased to see consecutive years of strong
performance which provides business leaders the assurance that
Illinois is the right place for their continued growth and
investment.”
In 2012, ComEd formed a storm task force and has made more than
200 enhancements to its storm restoration process. These
enhancements included GPS and mobile dispatch technology to more
efficiently manage crews to expedite restoration, a mobile
operations center to bring ComEd closer to customers in hardest hit
areas, and more efficient management of contractor crews. ComEd is
continuing to build on these process improvements, with new areas
of focus this year including an enhanced damage assessment process,
better coordination of vegetation management crews and improved
material staging to ensure readiness during severe weather. Over
the past two years, process improvements already in place have
resulted in a 30 percent improvement in restoration time.
“We are continually striving to improve the service we provide
and our customers and communities have told us they are seeing
tangible results,” said Donnelly. “We will continue our progress on
smart grid to bring even greater service and reliability to our
customers.”
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with approximately 7.8 million customers. ComEd
provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across
northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. For
more information visit ComEd.com, and connect with the company on
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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