City of Centralia - (WA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Centralia - (WA) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Washington under EIA identifier 3295. It reports service to approximately 10,701 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 2 ZIP codes. Municipal ownership means a local board or city council typically oversees this utility, and it is exempt from federal income tax.

In 2023, the average City of Centralia - (WA) customer experienced 208.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, 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 1.68, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 57.1 minutes, and the spread against the headline 208.6 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for City of Centralia - (WA), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 76.8 to 208.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.