Tampa Electric Co

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tampa Electric Co is an investor-owned utility operating in Florida under EIA identifier 18454. It reports service to approximately 834,144 customer accounts and generated about $2.96 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 136 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 Tampa Electric Co customer experienced 82.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.42, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 60.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 82.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Tampa Electric Co has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 79.5 to 82.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.