In general, new investments in power systems seek primarily to meet the increased load of customers, however it is important to seek investments that are directed exclusively at reducing the outage duration and/or number of customers affected for specific outages, such as:

• Install an additional fuse: all outages that are related to a specific location have a probability of reducing the number of customers affected.

• Install sectionalizers: It can isolate faulty portion of distribution line and return service to the circuit.

• Replace a fuse with a recloser: all outages related to the fuse that is replaced and causes such as lightning, trees, birds, etc. have a high probability of reducing the duration of outage.

• Place short distribution line underground: all outages on this feeder with most causes (e.g. lightning, trees, traffic accidents, etc.) are removed (the utility can select just some areas for this step)

• Add bird spikes / reflectors: all outages related to birds have a probability of removing the outage.

• Add a barrier to prevent car accidents from causing outages: outages at the location a barrier is added have a probability of being removed.

• Increase the utility spending on media outreach to improve awareness and response time: the duration of outage has a probability of being reduced.

• Install electric energy storage (EES) in rural communities or distant from urban centers, where the installation of cross connects are not economic or even feasible and so maintaining an allowable level of SAIDI.