State · EIA Form 861 · AL
Alabama
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Alabama utilities come from the federal annual survey. 16 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 156 and 365 minute tercile cuts (51 states with averages).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Alabama
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Alabama sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 296.1 minutes across 19 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning Foley Board of Utilities lowest at 64.6 to Diverse Power Incorporated highest at 2410.4.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Alabama 296.1
- Kansas 283.3
- Virginia 279.3
- Massachusetts 259.3
- Pennsylvania 255.3
- Georgia 345.9
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Alabama vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
19 Top 41% more reporting utilities than 59% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability
All 19 electric utilities in Alabama with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Alabama
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Alabama utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Alabama
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foley Board of Utilities | Municipal | 64.6 | 1.22 | 56,193 |
| 2 | City of Huntsville - (AL) | Municipal | 65.2 | 0.71 | 196,014 |
| 3 | Decatur Utilities | Municipal | 66.4 | 0.94 | 26,904 |
| 4 | Baldwin County El Member Corp | Cooperative | 109.8 | 1.26 | 88,359 |
| 5 | Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 178.7 | 1.50 | 18,109 |
| 6 | City of Scottsboro - (AL) | Municipal | 184.5 | 5.15 | 8,665 |
| 7 | Covington Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 255.6 | 2.00 | 24,434 |
| 8 | Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | Cooperative | 291.4 | 1.70 | 26,353 |
| 9 | Alabama Power Co | IOU | 302.3 | 1.50 | 1,537,035 |
| 10 | Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 327.7 | 2.34 | 30,054 |
| 11 | Joe Wheeler Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 373.8 | 2.74 | 45,524 |
| 12 | Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 377.4 | 3.26 | 26,530 |
| 13 | Central Alabama Electric Coop | Cooperative | 568.5 | - | 46,733 |
| 14 | South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 1067.5 | 4.16 | 17,456 |
| 15 | Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 1155.3 | 4.78 | 47,708 |
| 16 | Diverse Power Incorporated | Cooperative | 2410.4 | 7.00 | 36,503 |
| 17 | Albertville Municipal Utilities Board | Municipal | - | - | 10,602 |
| 18 | City of Opelika - (AL) | Municipal | - | - | 15,284 |
| 19 | City of Troy - (AL) | Municipal | - | - | 9,458 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Alabama. Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (19 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (2.3M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Alabama roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Alabama: Foley Board of Utilities (64.6 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Alabama: Diverse Power Incorporated (2410.4 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (11 of 19 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Kansas (283.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Virginia (279.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Massachusetts (259.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Pennsylvania (255.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Georgia (345.9 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.