Bristol Virginia Utilities

What This Utility Data Tells You

Bristol Virginia Utilities is a municipally-owned utility operating in Virginia under EIA identifier 2248. It reports service to approximately 16,401 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 5 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 Bristol Virginia Utilities customer experienced 43.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.46 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 0 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 43.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 43.2 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Bristol Virginia Utilities's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has improved from 86.3 to 43.2 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.