Board of Water Electric & Communications

What This Utility Data Tells You

Board of Water Electric & Communications is a municipally-owned utility operating in Iowa under EIA identifier 13143. It reports service to approximately 11,695 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 2 ZIP codes. Being municipally owned, the utility answers to a local board or city council rather than a state commission, and carries a federal income tax exemption.

In 2023, the average Board of Water Electric & Communications customer experienced 42.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.65 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 13.7 minutes, and the spread against the headline 42.6 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Board of Water Electric & Communications's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI climbed from 36.4 to 42.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.