Gainesville Regional Utilities

What This Utility Data Tells You

Gainesville Regional Utilities is a municipally-owned utility operating in Florida under EIA identifier 6909. It reports service to approximately 103,864 customer accounts and generated about $0.31 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 15 ZIP codes. 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 Gainesville Regional Utilities customer experienced 78.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.28 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 68.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 78.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Gainesville Regional Utilities's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has improved from 162.9 to 78.4 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.