Orange & Rockland Utils Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Orange & Rockland Utils Inc is an investor-owned utility operating in New York under EIA identifier 14154. It reports service to approximately 188,421 customer accounts and generated about $0.40 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 96 ZIP codes. Because it is investor-owned, the state public utility commission oversees its rate cases and reliability performance rather than a local board.

In 2023, the average Orange & Rockland Utils Inc customer experienced 224.7 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.49 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 110.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 224.7 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 Orange & Rockland Utils Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 1188.7 to 224.7 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 Orange & Rockland Utils Inc's other reported years.