City of Painesville

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Painesville is a municipally-owned utility operating in Ohio under EIA identifier 14381. It reports service to approximately 12,655 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 1 ZIP code. 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 Painesville customer experienced 68.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.48 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 60.6 minutes; the difference from the headline 68.2 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), City of Painesville's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 91.1 down to 68.2 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.