The American Public Power Association has honored 255 public power utilities with a "Certificate of Excellence in Reliability" for reliable performance in 2024.
Utilities that are subscribers of to APPA’s eReliability Tracker service are eligible to earn these certificates. To earn a certificate, a utility’s 2024 System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) must fall in the top quartile of all utilities’ SAIDI numbers averaged from 2019 – 2023 based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) 861 survey data.
The certificates celebrate utilities that have provided exceptionally reliable service and power to their communities.
“Year after year, data consistently demonstrate public power utilities provide highly reliable service.” said APPA Director of Research and Development Paul Zummo. “The utilities recognized here are truly elite when it comes to keeping the lights on. Their communities should be proud of the hard work and dedication of their local power providers as they earn this truly deserved recognition.”
When looking at eReliability Tracker subscribers’ 2024 outage data, more than 90% of utilities that verified their data had a 2024 SAIDI that was below the average national SAIDI for 2019-2023 (according to EIA data). This data also includes investor-owned utilities and cooperatives.
This demonstrates that public power utilities are generally above-average in reliability when compared to all U.S. providers, APPA noted.
The list of winners is available at PublicPower.org.
