Bear Valley Electric Service

What This Utility Data Tells You

Bear Valley Electric Service is an investor-owned utility operating in California under EIA identifier 17612. It reports service to approximately 24,773 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 7 ZIP codes. Investor ownership puts this utility under the regulatory authority of the state public utility commission, which reviews its rate requests and reliability record.

In 2023, the average Bear Valley Electric Service customer experienced 271.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.31, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 114.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 271.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Bear Valley Electric Service's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI dropped from 425.4 to 271.6 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.