SAIDI
89 min per year
Yearly outage minutes, on average (2023)
City of Glendale - (CA) is a municipally-owned utility operating in California under EIA identifier 7294. It reports service to approximately 90,578 customer accounts and generated about $0.22 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 31 ZIP codes. As a municipal utility, it is typically governed by a local board or city council and is exempt from federal income tax.
In 2023, the average City of Glendale - (CA) customer experienced 89.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 1.21 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 89.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 89.0 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.
City of Glendale - (CA) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 54.0 to 89.0 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.
SAIDI
89 min per year
Yearly outage minutes, on average (2023)
SAIFI
1.21 interruptions/yr
Average interruption count (2023)
Customers
90,578
Served in California
89 min/year per customer
Annual minutes without electric service (2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 1.072 | - |
| 2021 | 55.9 | 55.9 | 0.747 | - |
| 2022 | 76.2 | 76.2 | 0.866 | - |
| 2023 | 89.0 | 89.0 | 1.213 | - |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
City of Glendale - (CA) serves 31 ZIP codes in California.
City of Glendale - (CA) had a SAIDI of 89.0 minutes in 2023. Excluding major weather events, this is below the national average, indicating above-average reliability.
City of Glendale - (CA) is classified as a Municipal serving California.
City of Glendale - (CA) serves approximately 90,578 customers in California.
City of Glendale - (CA) has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has held roughly steady across these years. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer.
Every figure on PlainUtility is rendered directly from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Form 861 reliability data, no number is typed in by an editor. This utility's SAIDI/SAIFI figures are rendered directly from EIA Form 861 reliability files. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2020-2023.