Liberty hosting meeting to discuss reliability

Liberty Utilities will host two workshops this week to provide information about reliability issues within its service territory and, plans and progress made to improve service reliability.

The meetings are:

• Oct. 3, 10-11am, North Tahoe Event Center, Kings Beach
• Oct. 6, 1:30-2:30pm, Walker Community Center, Coleville.

These meetings are similar to the ones conducted earlier this year.

The California Public Utilities Commission requires investor-owned utilities like Liberty Utilities to annually post the two worst-performing circuits as measured by the industry standard System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI).

For 2016, the two worst-performing circuits were:

• Topaz 1261 at 1,338 customer outage minutes (serves the Coleville and Walker communities)
• Squaw Valley 7201 at 1,030 customer outage minutes (serves the North Tahoe area).