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PacifiCorp has continually and steadily improved its service reliability to customers as measured by SAIDI and SAIFI. This presentation will detail the programs and practices put in place to achieve continual improvement, as well as discuss ideas for future improvement. Jake Barker serves as director of distribution engineering and area transmission planning for PacifiCorp. He also has responsibility for customer generation engineering and power quality engineering. His responsibilities include ensuring PacifiCorp's distribution and sub-transmission grid provides adequate capacity to serve customers reliably, customers' power quality is within standards and customer generation installations comply with company interconnection policy. Previous to his current role, Barker worked in asset management developing the 10 year capital plan for major projects as well as managing customer engineering services and smart grid.