City of Riverside - (CA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Riverside - (CA) is a municipally-owned utility operating in California under EIA identifier 16088. It reports service to approximately 112,764 customer accounts and generated about $0.34 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 22 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 Riverside - (CA) customer experienced 67.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.53 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 60.6 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 67.4 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for City of Riverside - (CA), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 87.1 to 67.4 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.