PA Consulting Group announced the winners of its 2003 ReliabilityOne™ Awards during a ceremony held on October 29, 2003 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida. The annual ReliabilityOne™ Awards honor the most reliable utilities in North America every year. Winners are chosen using a rigorous, quantitatively driven process to identify the best performers in each region of North America. Each award recipient undergoes both a quantitative analysis of industry standard reliability statistics and a qualitative review of reliability performance and local published commentary.
This year’s winners are:
· Northeast Region- Consolidated Edison Company of New York
· Mid-Atlantic Region- Public Service Electric & Gas
· Southeast Region- Orlando Utilities Commission
· Midwest- We Energies
· Plains- Xcel Energy
· West- Southern California Edison
· Community Utility- City of Roseville
· National Achievement Award- Consolidated Edison Company of New York
PA’s primary source of reliability data is our industry-leading Transmission and Distribution Benchmarking Program, the most comprehensive and detailed source of North American cost, reliability and best practice data available in the industry. Once preliminary winners are chosen, each company undergoes an on-site certification process, which provides an independent review of the policies, processes and systems used to collect, analyze and report a company’s reliability results.
“The ReliabilityOne™award winners’ customers are fortunate to benefit from the winners’ sustained commitment to reliable performance in 2002 and for many years before,” said Derek HasBrouck, a Member of PA’s Management Group.
This year’s winners show outstanding dedication to reliable electrical service, with the lowest outage rates in each of their regions in North America.