City of Owensboro - (KY)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Owensboro - (KY) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 14268. It reports service to approximately 26,630 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 4 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 Owensboro - (KY) customer experienced 84.7 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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 0.78 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 84.7 minutes; the difference from the headline 84.7 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 Owensboro - (KY), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 42.2 to 84.7 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.