City of Brookings - (SD)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Brookings - (SD) is a municipally-owned utility operating in South Dakota under EIA identifier 2285. It reports service to approximately 11,954 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 2 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 Brookings - (SD) customer experienced 61.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.16 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 9.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 61.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

City of Brookings - (SD) has 3 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2021–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 4.1 to 61.8 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.