City of Austin - (MN)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Austin - (MN) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 1009. It reports service to approximately 11,994 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 1 ZIP code. 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 City of Austin - (MN) customer experienced 9.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 0.17 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 0 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 7.3 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 9.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for City of Austin - (MN), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 8.9 to 9.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.