IEVref:692-08-02ID:
Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: interruption frequency per customer interrupted
Synonym1: customer average interruption frequency index, CA US
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Synonym2: CAIFI
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Symbol: fCI
Definition: number of supply interruptions experienced by the individual customers affected at least once during a time interval, divided by the product of the number of affected customers and the duration of that time interval

Note 1 to entry: If NNS is the number of customers affected and the supply of customer j is interrupted nj times during a time interval of duration T, then the interruption frequency per customer interrupted is given by

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When determining NNS, each customer affected must be counted only once, regardless of the number of interruptions experienced during that time interval.

Note 2 to entry: Usually, only sustained interruptions are considered.

Note 3 to entry: The term "customer" represents the end user and not some intermediate distribution system or company.

Note 4 to entry: Interruption frequency per customer interrupted can be used to describe past performance or to estimate expected future performance.

Note 5 to entry: This entry was numbered 191-27-02 in IEC 60050-191:1990.


Publication date:2017-12-15
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