State · EIA Form 861 · WY

Wyoming

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Wyoming 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: short chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (<=156 min tercile cut).

EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief

Wyoming

EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.

Wyoming sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 156.2 minutes across 4 reporting utilities (Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power lowest at 71.9), under the live national mean of 341.

SAIDI min/cust-yr
156.2
SAIFI events/yr
1.18
UTILS reporting
4
FILE w/ reliability
3
CUST accounts
102K
RANK# by headcount
#46/51
BEST lowest SAIDI
72
WORST highest SAIDI
326

State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)

  • Wyoming 156.2
  • Washington 158.2
  • Florida 160.1
  • New Mexico 167.3
  • Connecticut 168.7
  • Nevada 138.7

Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.

Wyoming 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)

4 Top 90% more reporting utilities than 10% 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 · Wyoming short-outage cohort

All 4 electric utilities in Wyoming with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the lower-third Form 861 band.

Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Wyoming

Fewest outage minutes · live table sort

Top 3 Wyoming utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.

Source: U.S. EIA Form 861 As of August 2026

Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Wyoming

1. Cheyenne Light Fuel & Pow…71.92. Powder River Energy Corp205.493. High Plains Power Inc325.57
Top 3 by fewest outage minutes (live table sort). Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
0 min400 minNational mean341min156.2min
Wyoming customer-weighted average SAIDI is 156.2 minutes versus the national mean of 341 minutes (EIA Form 861). Lower is better; statewide means are not a guarantee for any address.
# Utility Type SAIDI 2023 SAIFI 2023 Customers
1 Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power IOU 71.9 1.05 44,789
2 Powder River Energy Corp Cooperative 205.5 1.40 26,558
3 High Plains Power Inc Cooperative 325.6 - 13,835
4 City of Gillette - (WY) Municipal - - 16,646

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.