City of Huntsville - (AL)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Huntsville - (AL) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Alabama under EIA identifier 9094. It reports service to approximately 196,014 customer accounts and generated about $0.56 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 49 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 Huntsville - (AL) customer experienced 65.2 minutes of power interruptions — a metric called SAIDI (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. SAIFI — the average number of outage events per customer — was 0.71 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 65.2 minutes — the gap between that figure and the headline 65.2 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 Huntsville - (AL), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. All figures on this page come directly from EIA Form 861, the federal annual electric power industry survey, with service territory ZIPs sourced from OpenEI — you can cross-reference them with your own utility bill or use them when comparing providers before relocating.