Municipal North Carolina

City of New Bern - (NC)

136min
SAIDI 2023
1.36
SAIFI 2023
24,527
Customers

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of New Bern - (NC) is a municipally-owned utility operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 13416. It reports service to approximately 24,527 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 1 ZIP code. 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 New Bern - (NC) customer experienced 136.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.36 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 61.5 minutes, and the spread against the headline 136.4 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

City of New Bern - (NC) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 265.2 to 136.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.

SAIDI

136 min per year

Yearly outage minutes, on average (2023)

SAIFI

1.36 interruptions/yr

Outage frequency (2023)

Customers

24,527

Served in North Carolina

SAIDI vs. National Average (180 min) 34.1%

136 minutes per customer per year

City of New Bern - (NC) SAIDI

Minutes without power per year (2023)

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Average

Reliability Trend (2020–2023)

Year SAIDI (min) SAIDI nMED SAIFI Customers
2020 265.2 23.9 1.604 22,868
2021 109.6 24.8 1.541 23,395
2022 117.4 54.9 1.819 23,906
2023 136.4 61.5 1.361 24,584

SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.

Service Area

City of New Bern - (NC) serves 1 ZIP code in North Carolina.

28562

Frequently Asked Questions

How reliable is City of New Bern - (NC)?

City of New Bern - (NC) had a SAIDI of 136.4 minutes in 2023 including major weather events, but 61.5 minutes excluding them (the IEEE-standard measure of day-to-day reliability, the gap reflects a major storm that year, not chronic performance). Excluding major storm impacts, this beats the national average, a sign of above-average reliability.

What type of utility is City of New Bern - (NC)?

City of New Bern - (NC) is classified as a Municipal serving North Carolina.

How many customers does City of New Bern - (NC) serve?

City of New Bern - (NC) serves approximately 24,527 customers in North Carolina.

How has City of New Bern - (NC)'s reliability changed over time?

City of New Bern - (NC) has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has held roughly steady across these years. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.

Utility Profile

Type
Municipal
Customers
24,527
Annual Revenue
$0.05B
EIA ID
13416

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer.

Every figure on PlainUtility is rendered directly from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Form 861 reliability data, no number is typed in by an editor. This utility's SAIDI/SAIFI figures are rendered directly from EIA Form 861 reliability files. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2020-2023.