State · EIA Form 861 · RI
Rhode Island
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Rhode Island 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
Rhode Island
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Rhode Island sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 104.6 minutes across 1 reporting utilities (The Narragansett Electric Co lowest at 104.6), under the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Rhode Island 104.6
- Iowa 105.2
- Arizona 106.9
- Delaware 108.2
- New Jersey 108.3
- Colorado 99.4
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Rhode Island 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 · Rhode Island short-outage cohort
All 1 electric utilities in Rhode Island 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 | The Narragansett Electric Co | IOU | 104.6 | 0.78 | 404,034 |
Read with this Rhode Island roster · short-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in Rhode Island: The Narragansett Electric Co (104.6 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (1 of 1 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Iowa (105.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Arizona (106.9 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Delaware (108.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: New Jersey (108.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Colorado (99.4 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.