SAIDI definition

SAIDI means System Average Interruption Duration Index and is a measure (in hours) of the annual system average interruption duration for customers served, not including MED. SAIDI represents the quotient obtained by dividing the total customer hours of interruptions longer than one minute by the number of customers served.

Examples of SAIDI in a sentence

  • An overall assessment of the reliability performance, including the urban and rural SAIFI, SAIDI, and CAIDI reliability indices for the previous calendar year for the Iowa service territory and each defined Iowa operating area, if applicable.

  • The urban and rural SAIFI, SAIDI, and CAIDI reliability average indices for the previous five calendar years for the Iowa service territory and each defined Iowa operating area, if applicable.

  • Electric System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) in Minutes https://publish.clearpointstrategy.com/594/Measures/scorecardId=6290&object=measure&objectId=91417.

  • For the purposes of calculating daily system SAIDI, any interruption that spans multiple calendar days is accrued to the day on which the interruption began.

  • Interruptions are tracked using System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) and System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI).


More Definitions of SAIDI

SAIDI means the system average interruption duration index; "Schedule” means a schedule to this agreement.
SAIDI has the meaning set forth in Exhibit G.
SAIDI means the System Average Interruption Duration Index. See footnote (2) to the EIX matrix above for additional defined terms.
SAIDI means the sum of customer minutes interrupted over the year divided by the total number of customers served. SAIDI is calculated in accordance with Standard No. 1366 published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is summarized as the sum for the year of all customers interrupted for more than 5 minutes, times the number of minutes they experienced an interruption, divided by the total number of customers. For the purpose of this calculation, precautionary outages ordered by management as fire prevention measures are excluded in the SAIDI calculation. However, if the CPUC determines that such precautionary outage was unjustified, the SAIDI from the outage will be included.
SAIDI means System Average Interruption Duration Index, being the average outage duration for each consumer served and calculated as the sum of all consumer interruptions, in hours, divided by the total number of consumers served by Licensee.