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ComEd briefs Evanston panel on reliability, capacity planning and incentives
Summary
ComEd described recent reliability gains in Evanston, plans for capacity planning amid electrification, and a suite of state‑funded energy‑efficiency incentives and technical services for municipalities, businesses and residents.
Godwin Aitira, manager of Reliability for ComEd's North Region, told an Evanston utilities panel that the company tracks outages using a System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAFEI) and is seeing lower interruption frequency in the city. "But you can see last year, it was, 0.62," Aitira said, citing ComEd's internal reporting and five‑year trend charts.
Aitira said vegetation was the leading cause of outages in 2024 and that ComEd inspected and trimmed "roughly 60 miles of feeders we assessed and we trimmed" to reduce tree‑related interruptions. He described investments in automation, reclosers and line sensors intended to shorten outage durations and enable more rapid, sometimes automatic, restoration when transient faults occur.
Committee members pressed ComEd on capacity…
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