State · EIA Form 861 · FL
Florida
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Florida utilities come from the federal annual survey. 33 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
Florida
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Florida sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 160.1 minutes across 35 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning Kissimmee Utility Authority lowest at 30.1 to Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (FL) highest at 10820.0.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Florida 160.1
- Washington 158.2
- Wyoming 156.2
- New Mexico 167.3
- Connecticut 168.7
- Nevada 138.7
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Florida 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)
35 Top 14% more reporting utilities than 86% 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 35 electric utilities in Florida with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Florida
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Florida utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Florida
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kissimmee Utility Authority | Municipal | 30.1 | 0.56 | 87,457 |
| 2 | City of Bartow - (FL) | Municipal | 36.1 | 0.38 | 12,849 |
| 3 | Beaches Energy Services | Municipal | 36.5 | 0.54 | 35,978 |
| 4 | Utility Board of the City of Key West, F | Municipal | 50.0 | 1.50 | 31,780 |
| 5 | City of Lakeland - (FL) | Municipal | 52.6 | 1.12 | 134,647 |
| 6 | Orlando Utilities Comm | Municipal | 58.6 | 0.66 | 275,338 |
| 7 | JEA | Municipal | 64.6 | - | 515,515 |
| 8 | Fort Pierce Utilities Authority | Municipal | 66.0 | 0.92 | 29,233 |
| 9 | New Smyrna Beach City of | Municipal | 66.3 | 0.97 | 31,035 |
| 10 | City of Homestead - (FL) | Municipal | 69.7 | 0.04 | 26,257 |
| 11 | Sumter Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 71.4 | 1.03 | 240,818 |
| 12 | Florida Power & Light Co | IOU | 78.3 | 0.64 | 5,811,951 |
| 13 | Gainesville Regional Utilities | Municipal | 78.4 | 1.28 | 103,864 |
| 14 | Tampa Electric Co | IOU | 82.6 | 1.42 | 834,144 |
| 15 | Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | Cooperative | 95.6 | 1.26 | 246,484 |
| 16 | City of Ocala | Municipal | 125.6 | 1.36 | 57,113 |
| 17 | Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | Cooperative | 137.9 | 1.44 | 251,731 |
| 18 | Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 146.4 | 1.57 | 61,418 |
| 19 | Florida Keys El Coop Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 153.9 | 1.90 | 34,291 |
| 20 | Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 167.4 | 1.25 | 63,075 |
| 21 | Duke Energy Florida, LLC | IOU | 179.7 | 1.08 | 1,968,212 |
| 22 | City of Lake Worth Beach - (FL) | Municipal | 184.7 | 3.90 | 27,735 |
| 23 | Florida Public Utilities Co | IOU | 314.1 | 2.70 | 30,199 |
| 24 | City of Tallahassee - (FL) | Municipal | 352.6 | 3.02 | 113,300 |
| 25 | Glades Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 375.5 | 0.82 | 18,119 |
| 26 | West Florida El Coop Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 396.6 | 3.42 | 29,530 |
| 27 | Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | Cooperative | 693.7 | 3.33 | 190,601 |
| 28 | Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 781.0 | 4.90 | 22,302 |
| 29 | Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp | Cooperative | 787.0 | 4.32 | 29,299 |
| 30 | Talquin Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 1219.0 | 5.10 | 56,792 |
| 31 | Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 1902.5 | 3.90 | 36,682 |
| 32 | Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 6825.0 | 6.86 | 28,992 |
| 33 | Gulf Power Co | IOU | - | - | - |
| 34 | City of Leesburg - (FL) | Municipal | - | - | 28,973 |
| 35 | Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (FL) | Cooperative | 10820.0 | 6.00 | 20,118 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Florida. 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 (35 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (11.5M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Florida roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Florida: Kissimmee Utility Authority (30.1 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Florida: Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (FL) (10820.0 min)
- Ownership mix here: Municipal leads (15 of 35 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Washington (158.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Wyoming (156.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: New Mexico (167.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Connecticut (168.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Nevada (138.7 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.