City of Kinston - (NC)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Kinston - (NC) is a municipally-owned utility operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 10345. It reports service to approximately 11,874 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 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 Kinston - (NC) customer experienced 179.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.04 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 179.6 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 179.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

City of Kinston - (NC) 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 57.9 to 179.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.