City of New Braunfels - (TX)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of New Braunfels - (TX) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Texas under EIA identifier 13418. It reports service to approximately 54,124 customer accounts and generated about $0.20 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 2 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 New Braunfels - (TX) customer experienced 107.3 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.73, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 42.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 107.3 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 New Braunfels - (TX), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 25.7 to 107.3 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.