Northern Wasco County PUD

What This Utility Data Tells You

Northern Wasco County PUD is a municipally-owned utility operating in Oregon under EIA identifier 13788. It reports service to approximately 10,466 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 7 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 Northern Wasco County PUD customer experienced 12.4 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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.07, putting the typical customer at roughly 0 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 12.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 12.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Northern Wasco County PUD, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 87.3 to 12.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely. 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 Northern Wasco County PUD's other reported years.