State · EIA Form 861 · NY
New York
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for New York utilities come from the federal annual survey. 11 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
New York
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
New York sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 122.0 minutes across 11 reporting utilities (Village of Freeport - (NY) lowest at 7.3), under the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- New York 122.0
- Oregon 121.5
- Utah 118.7
- Montana 118.7
- Minnesota 126.7
- South Carolina 135.5
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
New York 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)
11 Top 63% more reporting utilities than 37% 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 · New York short-outage cohort
All 11 electric utilities in New York with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the lower-third Form 861 band.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in New York
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 New York utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in New York
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Village of Freeport - (NY) | Municipal | 7.3 | 0.09 | 15,175 |
| 2 | Consolidated Edison Co-NY Inc | IOU | 18.8 | 0.12 | 3,142,067 |
| 3 | Town of Massena - (NY) | Municipal | 29.0 | 0.67 | 9,341 |
| 4 | Jamestown Board of Public Util | Municipal | 43.1 | 1.59 | 18,875 |
| 5 | Long Island Power Authority | State | 62.5 | 0.71 | 1,154,795 |
| 6 | Village of Fairport - (NY) | Municipal | 74.8 | 0.57 | 17,990 |
| 7 | Rochester Gas & Electric Corp | IOU | 102.2 | 0.84 | 311,622 |
| 8 | Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | IOU | 207.9 | 1.14 | 1,542,714 |
| 9 | Orange & Rockland Utils Inc | IOU | 224.7 | 1.49 | 188,421 |
| 10 | New York State Elec & Gas Corp | IOU | 341.2 | 1.86 | 810,922 |
| 11 | Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | IOU | 344.8 | 1.50 | 282,355 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for New York (lower-third SAIDI band). Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (11 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (7.5M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this New York roster · short-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in New York: Village of Freeport - (NY) (7.3 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in New York: Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp (344.8 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (6 of 11 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Oregon (121.5 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Utah (118.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Montana (118.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Minnesota (126.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: South Carolina (135.5 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.