City of Carthage - (MO)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Carthage - (MO) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Missouri under EIA identifier 3113. It reports service to approximately 8,122 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 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 Carthage - (MO) customer experienced 59.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.29, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 50.7 minutes; the difference from the headline 59.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for City of Carthage - (MO), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 21.4 to 59.9 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.