State · EIA Form 861 · ME
Maine
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Maine utilities come from the federal annual survey. 3 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: long chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (>365 min tercile cut).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Maine
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Maine sits in the upper-third SAIDI band at 1863.0 minutes across 3 reporting utilities (Eastern Maine Electric Coop highest at 4752.3), above the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Maine 1863.0
- Oklahoma 1279.8
- Michigan 1115.3
- Kentucky 867.6
- Tennessee 866.4
- Mississippi 801.3
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Maine 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)
3 Top 94% more reporting utilities than 6% 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 · Maine long-outage cohort
All 3 electric utilities in Maine with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the upper-third Form 861 band.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Maine
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 3 Maine utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Maine
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central Maine Power Co | IOU | 1656.5 | 3.01 | 566,581 |
| 2 | Versant Power | IOU | 2475.0 | 3.91 | 117,729 |
| 3 | Eastern Maine Electric Coop | Cooperative | 4752.3 | 11.37 | 13,081 |
Nationwide states with similar customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for Maine (upper-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 (697K here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Maine roster · long-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in Maine: Central Maine Power Co (1656.5 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Maine: Eastern Maine Electric Coop (4752.3 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (2 of 3 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Oklahoma (1279.8 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Michigan (1115.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Kentucky (867.6 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Tennessee (866.4 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Mississippi (801.3 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.