be felt if they don’t act early based on the condition of the equipment. After establishing the best overhead circuits to focus on the utility operator will need to justif y the project by looking at the potential Benefit-to-Cost (B/C). We are applying a simplified approach for obtaining an initial B/C that leverages historical reliability performance (SAIFI* and CAIDI**) to project or simulate the equipment related outage impact described in Figure 1. We will save the details of deriving the simulated distribution function parameters for a future blog. Let ’s step through the approach for an anonymous utility with median performance SAIFI and CAIDI excluding Major Event Days (MED)