Liberty Utilities will host two workshops this week to provide information about reliability issues within its service territory and, plans and progress made to improve service reliability.

The meetings are:

• Oct. 3, 10-11am, North Tahoe Event Center, Kings Beach
• Oct. 6, 1:30-2:30pm, Walker Community Center, Coleville.

These meetings are similar to the ones conducted earlier this year.

The California Public Utilities Commission requires investor-owned utilities like Liberty Utilities to annually post the two worst-performing circuits as measured by the industry standard System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI).

For 2016, the two worst-performing circuits were:

• Topaz 1261 at 1,338 customer outage minutes (serves the Coleville and Walker communities)
• Squaw Valley 7201 at 1,030 customer outage minutes (serves the North Tahoe area).