Rochelle Municipal Utilities

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

What short-outage Rochelle Municipal Utilities filings show

Rochelle Municipal Utilities is a municipally-owned utility operating in Illinois under EIA identifier 16179. It reports service to approximately 7,443 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 1 ZIP code. 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 Rochelle Municipal Utilities customer experienced 11.1 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 0.29 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 0 distinct interruptions that year.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Rochelle Municipal Utilities, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 93.1 to 11.1 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 Rochelle Municipal Utilities's other reported years.