Brownsville Public Utilities Board

What This Utility Data Tells You

Brownsville Public Utilities Board is a municipally-owned utility operating in Texas under EIA identifier 2409. It reports service to approximately 54,080 customer accounts and generated about $0.17 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 8 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 Brownsville Public Utilities Board customer experienced 146.7 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.06 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 92.3 minutes, and the spread against the headline 146.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Brownsville Public Utilities Board has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 63.1 to 146.7 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.