ABSTRACT
The following deŠnitions of terms for reporting and analyzing outages of power system facilities and interruptions are taken from Ref. [1] and included here by permission of the IEEE.
Outage. It describes the state of a component when it is not available to perform its intended function due to some event directly associated with that component. An outage may or may not cause an interruption of service to consumers depending on system conŠguration.
