Hutchinson Utilities Comm

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage Hutchinson Utilities Comm filings show

Hutchinson Utilities Comm is a municipally-owned utility operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 9130. It reports service to approximately 7,619 customer accounts and generated about $0.02 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 Hutchinson Utilities Comm customer experienced 1.8 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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.12 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 0 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 1.8 minutes, and the spread against the headline 1.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Hutchinson Utilities Comm has 2 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2022–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 9.2 down to 1.8 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Hutchinson Utilities Comm's other reported years.