State · EIA Form 861 · DC
District of Columbia
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for District of Columbia utilities come from the federal annual survey. 1 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: short chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (<=156 min tercile cut).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
District of Columbia
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
District of Columbia sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 71.9 minutes across 1 reporting utilities (Potomac Electric Power Co lowest at 71.9), under the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- District of Columbia 71.9
- Nebraska 72.6
- South Dakota 83.4
- Colorado 99.4
- Rhode Island 104.6
- Iowa 105.2
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
District of Columbia 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)
1 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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 · District of Columbia short-outage cohort
All 1 electric utilities in District of Columbia with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the lower-third Form 861 band.
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Potomac Electric Power Co | IOU | 71.9 | 0.37 | 504,871 |
Nationwide states with similar customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for District of Columbia (lower-third SAIDI band). Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (505K here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this District of Columbia roster · short-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in District of Columbia: Potomac Electric Power Co (71.9 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (1 of 1 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Nebraska (72.6 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: South Dakota (83.4 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Colorado (99.4 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Rhode Island (104.6 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Iowa (105.2 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.