City of Memphis - (TN)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Memphis - (TN) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Tennessee under EIA identifier 12293. It reports service to approximately 414,530 customer accounts and generated about $1.38 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 83 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 Memphis - (TN) customer experienced 2694.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.20, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 408.6 minutes; the difference from the headline 2694.0 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 Memphis - (TN), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 391.2 to 2694.0 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.