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 measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.71 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 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.