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Presented by: Dr. Julio Romero Agüero IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation at Quanta Technology Presentation Contents This presentation will provide an overview of leading industry practices, standards and methodologies for evaluation and improvement of reliability and resiliency of distribution systems, including the following aspects:  Review of IEEE 1366-2012 Standard: including key definitions (outage, interruption, major event days, failure rates; mean-times-to-repair; etc.); distribution reliability indices (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, MAIFI, CEMI, etc.); major event exclusion methodology (2.5 beta method); resiliency, resiliency metrics, and application examples.  Classic and modern distribution reliability and resiliency improvement practices: including overcurrent protection philosophies (fuse saving, fuse clearing); reclosing (single-phase reclosing/lockout, three-phase reclosing/lockout, singlephase reclosing/three-phase lockout); distribution feeder automation (half-loop schemes, full-loop schemes, Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR), fault circuit indicators, and sensors); vegetation management; weather hardening; aging infrastructure replacement; outage management and restoration (fault location, upstream/downstream restoration); real-time monitoring, protection, automation, control, and operations; utility enterprise systems (SCADA, OMS and AMI); and DER applications (microgrids and NWA).  Distribution reliability and resiliency modeling and simulation: review of software tools for distribution reliability modeling and analysis (CYME, Synergi, etc.); historical data analysis; model calibration; predictive reliability modeling; parametric modeling; benefit-cost analysis and prioritization; and development of reliability and resiliency improvement roadmaps.  Case studies: examples of distribution reliability and resiliency improvement roadmaps for real-life power distribution systems