City of Bowling Green - (KY)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Bowling Green - (KY) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 2056. It reports service to approximately 32,045 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 4 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 City of Bowling Green - (KY) customer experienced 48.3 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.75 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 48.3 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 48.3 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 Bowling Green - (KY), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 112.0 down to 48.3 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.