The Assistant Electric Utility Director presented a system reliability overview, highlighting current reliability performance, causes of outages, and planned mitigation measures such as routine substation maintenance, inspections, and proactive aged cable and equipment replacement. The presentation noted a proposed 12000000 in funding over the next five years for aged cable and equipment replacement, but did not identify specific vendors or active procurements. These reliability initiatives indicate a pipeline of undergrounding, cable replacement, and distribution system maintenance work that will require materials, construction services, inspection, and potentially asset management or outage analytics tools.Vendors can start conversations around programmatic replacement strategies, turnkey construction and maintenance services, and technology solutions that help target and document reliability improvements aligned with the planned five‑year funding.

System is already 86% underground, and all new installations are designed underground with redundant networked high-voltage systems; reliability program will likely focus on aging underground assets and field devices.