City of Newark - (DE)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Newark - (DE) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Delaware under EIA identifier 13519. It reports service to approximately 13,377 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 8 ZIP codes. 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 Newark - (DE) customer experienced 30.9 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.28 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 0 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 30.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 30.9 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 Newark - (DE), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 103.4 to 30.9 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.