Table 8.12.B. U.S. Transformer Sustained Automatic Outage Counts
and Hours by High-Voltage Size and NERC Region, 2011
 

Sustained Automatic Outage Counts

High-Side Voltage (kV)
Eastern Interconnection TRE WECC Contiguous U.S.
100-199 -- -- -- --
200-299 -- -- -- --
300-399 10.00 -- 1.00 11.00
400-599 19.00 -- 3.00 22.00
600+ 2.00 -- -- 2.00
Grand Total 31.00 -- 4.00 35.00

 

Sustained Automatic Outage Hours

High-Side Voltage (kV)
Eastern Interconnection TRE WECC Contiguous U.S.
100-199 -- -- -- --
200-299 -- -- -- --
300-399 505.53 -- 14.27 519.80
400-599 24,652.62 -- 68.97 24,721.59
600+ 18.48 -- -- 18.48
Grand Total 25,176.64 -- 83.23 25,259.87

 

Outage Hours per Outage Incident
  Eastern Interconnection TRE WECC Contiguous U.S.
Rate 812.15 -- 20.81 721.71

Notes:
* = Value is less than half of the smallest unit of measure. (e.g., for values with no decimals, the smallest unit is 1 then values under 0.5 are shown as *.)
Eastern NERC Regions are aggregated to preserve confidentiality.
An Automatic Outage is an outage which results from the automatic operation of a switching device, causing an Element to change from an In-Service State to a not In-Service State.
A Sustained Outage is an automatic outage with an outage duration of a minute or greater.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-411, "Coordinated Bulk Power Supply Program Report."