City of Hope - (AR)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Hope - (AR) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Arkansas under EIA identifier 8840. It reports service to approximately 6,901 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 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 Hope - (AR) customer experienced 196.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.74 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 32.9 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 196.6 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 Hope - (AR), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 111.2 to 196.6 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.