Cedarburg Light & Water Comm

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage Cedarburg Light & Water Comm filings show

Cedarburg Light & Water Comm is a municipally-owned utility operating in Wisconsin under EIA identifier 3208. It reports service to approximately 6,857 customer accounts and generated about $0.01 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 3 ZIP codes. As a municipal utility, it is typically governed by a local board or city council and is exempt from federal income tax.

In 2023, the average Cedarburg Light & Water Comm customer experienced 4.8 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.15 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 0 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 0.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 4.8 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Cedarburg Light & Water Comm, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 35.9 to 4.8 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Cedarburg Light & Water Comm's other reported years.