State · EIA Form 861 · PA
Pennsylvania
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Pennsylvania utilities come from the federal annual survey. 12 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
Pennsylvania
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Pennsylvania sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 255.3 minutes across 12 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning Borough of Chambersburg lowest at 27.9 to Pennsylvania Power Co highest at 706.0.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Pennsylvania 255.3
- Massachusetts 259.3
- Louisiana 240.8
- Virginia 279.3
- Kansas 283.3
- North Carolina 217.3
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Pennsylvania 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)
12 Top 61% more reporting utilities than 39% 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 12 electric utilities in Pennsylvania with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Pennsylvania
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Pennsylvania utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Pennsylvania
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borough of Chambersburg | Municipal | 27.9 | 0.35 | 11,639 |
| 2 | Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | IOU | 42.4 | 0.43 | 7,080 |
| 3 | UGI Utilities, Inc | IOU | 119.0 | 0.83 | 61,450 |
| 4 | PECO Energy Co | IOU | 126.0 | 0.88 | 1,305,182 |
| 5 | Pike County Light & Power Co | IOU | 144.0 | 1.52 | 4,336 |
| 6 | Duquesne Light Co | IOU | 146.0 | 0.79 | 472,669 |
| 7 | PPL Electric Utilities Corp | IOU | 149.7 | 0.80 | 908,658 |
| 8 | West Penn Power Company | IOU | 420.0 | 1.41 | 597,758 |
| 9 | Metropolitan Edison Co | IOU | 427.0 | 1.46 | 460,147 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania Electric Co | IOU | 491.1 | 2.05 | 468,680 |
| 11 | Wellsborough Electric Co | IOU | 539.0 | 3.73 | 6,392 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania Power Co | IOU | 706.0 | 1.51 | 136,501 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Pennsylvania. 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 (12 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (4.4M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Pennsylvania roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Pennsylvania: Borough of Chambersburg (27.9 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Power Co (706.0 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (11 of 12 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Massachusetts (259.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Louisiana (240.8 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Virginia (279.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Kansas (283.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: North Carolina (217.3 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.