City of Kansas City - (KS)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Kansas City - (KS) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Kansas under EIA identifier 9996. It reports service to approximately 67,713 customer accounts and generated about $0.27 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 25 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 Kansas City - (KS) customer experienced 738.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.88, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 175.8 minutes; the difference from the headline 738.6 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

City of Kansas City - (KS) 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 132.7 to 738.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.