Town of Bedford - (VA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Town of Bedford - (VA) is a municipally-owned utility operating in Virginia under EIA identifier 1456. It reports service to approximately 6,918 customer accounts and generated about $0.02 billion in annual electric revenue. 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 Town of Bedford - (VA) customer experienced 274.2 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.33 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 136.8 minutes, and the spread against the headline 274.2 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Town of Bedford - (VA) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 331.4 to 274.2 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.