Angie Bond Simpson

Yeah, the hot day, again, starts pretty far in advance with that forecasting very far out.

So the planners will actually look at the projection for the hottest day of the hottest time of the year and the hottest hour.

And we'll essentially build the system for that time, that extreme time, and

And if we can meet that peak and have a little bit of reserves for contingency purposes, then the assumption is that the remainder of the year can be covered and that you use those times where it's not hot to do your proactive and preventative maintenance.

Well, sure, there are plenty of nightmare scenarios, but just to be clear, you know, my job is to prevent those situations from actually coming to fruition or to at least give our real-time operations as many tools as

and their toolkit to manage those times.

So having good planning, good standards, good training, making sure that if there is a small outage, that there's a response, that there's good relationships across the West, so that if we need to purchase power, we have a good handle on who is selling and what's available.

And so there's just this constant hum in the background for preparedness.

And I think that's what most people probably don't appreciate is that, you know, when you go home and you flip on the air conditioner or the light, you have an expectation of it being there.

And there is so much that goes into actually planning and executing to make that come to fruition at all times.

Because it's actually pretty mundane things that cause power outages.

Oftentimes, when a customer is without power, it's more something that has happened on that distribution or that neighborhood grid.

And those are things like...

car accident that runs into a power pole.

Or there was a gender reveal party that popped confetti into the distribution lines.

Or Mylar balloons.

And so it's things that everyday people are doing and they accidentally get into the distribution system.

At SRP, we're very fortunate to have a lot of

different redundancy to where we can try to minimize those outages and have fast response times.

But it's almost impossible to prevent every outage and every mylar balloon from getting in the power line.