City of Santa Clara - (CA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

City of Santa Clara - (CA) is a municipally-owned utility operating in California under EIA identifier 16655. It reports service to approximately 57,011 customer accounts and generated about $0.61 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 17 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 Santa Clara - (CA) customer experienced 148.5 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.34 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 65.6 minutes, and the spread against the headline 148.5 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

City of Santa Clara - (CA) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 169.2 down to 148.5 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.