Municipal North Carolina

City of Albemarle - (NC)

58min
SAIDI 2022
0.56
SAIFI 2022
13,039
Customers

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Albemarle - (NC) is a municipally-owned utility operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 232. It reports service to approximately 13,039 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 2 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 2022, the average City of Albemarle - (NC) customer experienced 57.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.56, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 44.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 57.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

City of Albemarle - (NC) has 3 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2022), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 264.5 to 57.6 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.

SAIDI

58 min per year

Mean outage duration per year (2022)

SAIFI

0.56 interruptions/yr

Outage frequency (2022)

Customers

13,039

Customers across North Carolina

SAIDI vs. National Average (180 min) 14.4%

58 minutes per customer per year

City of Albemarle - (NC) SAIDI

Annual minutes without electric service (2022)

58 SAIDI58 SAIDINat. avg 120120SAIDI58SAIDI

Excellent

Reliability Trend (2020–2022)

Year SAIDI (min) SAIDI nMED SAIFI Customers
2020 264.5 51.1 0.820 11,821
2021 69.0 49.9 0.730 11,821
2022 57.6 44.5 0.560 12,412

SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.

Service Area

City of Albemarle - (NC) serves 2 ZIP codes in North Carolina.

2800128002

Frequently Asked Questions

How reliable is City of Albemarle - (NC)?

City of Albemarle - (NC) had a SAIDI of 57.6 minutes in 2022. Excluding major storm impacts, this beats the national average, a sign of above-average reliability.

What type of utility is City of Albemarle - (NC)?

City of Albemarle - (NC) is classified as a Municipal serving North Carolina.

How many customers does City of Albemarle - (NC) serve?

City of Albemarle - (NC) serves approximately 13,039 customers in North Carolina.

How has City of Albemarle - (NC)'s reliability changed over time?

City of Albemarle - (NC) has 3 years of reliability data (2020-2022). SAIDI has remained relatively stable over this period. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.

Utility Profile

Type
Municipal
Customers
13,039
Annual Revenue
$0.03B
EIA ID
232

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer.

Every figure on PlainUtility is rendered directly from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Form 861 reliability data, no number is typed in by an editor. This utility's SAIDI/SAIFI figures are rendered directly from EIA Form 861 reliability files. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2020-2023.