City of Marshall - (MN)

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage City of Marshall - (MN) filings show

City of Marshall - (MN) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 11731. It reports service to approximately 6,901 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 1 ZIP code. 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 Marshall - (MN) customer experienced 0.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 0.01 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 0 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 0.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 0.2 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for City of Marshall - (MN), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 1.3 down to 0.2 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against City of Marshall - (MN)'s other reported years.