City of Independence - (MO)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Independence - (MO) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Missouri under EIA identifier 9231. It reports service to approximately 58,694 customer accounts and generated about $0.14 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 20 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 Independence - (MO) customer experienced 147.3 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 0.60, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 39.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 147.3 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

City of Independence - (MO) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 74.1 to 147.3 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.