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Utility presents 2024 reliability metrics; Coldwater outperforms several investor‑owned peers
Summary
A Coldwater staff presentation reviewed 2024 outage data (average restoration ~62 minutes, typical outage ~28 minutes), causes (vegetation, animals, equipment, vehicle strikes, weather, unknowns), and proposed mitigations including targeted tree trimming, undergrounding and drone pole inspections.
Coldwater utility staff presented 2024 reliability metrics at the Oct. 1 Board of Public Utilities meeting, showing relatively short average restoration times and a list of common outage causes, and outlined steps to reduce outages going forward.
Andrew (last name not provided in the transcript) told the board Coldwater’s average restoration time was…
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