State · EIA Form 861 · LA
Louisiana
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Louisiana utilities come from the federal annual survey. 14 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 156 and 365 minute tercile cuts (51 states with averages).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Louisiana
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Louisiana sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 240.8 minutes across 14 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. lowest at 3.3 to Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc highest at 966.6.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Louisiana 240.8
- Pennsylvania 255.3
- Massachusetts 259.3
- North Carolina 217.3
- Illinois 205.9
- Virginia 279.3
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Louisiana vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
14 Top 55% more reporting utilities than 45% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability
All 14 electric utilities in Louisiana with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Louisiana
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Louisiana utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Louisiana
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. | Cooperative | 3.3 | 2.59 | 17,753 |
| 2 | Pointe Coupee Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 3.6 | 0.01 | 10,685 |
| 3 | Jefferson Davis Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 41.4 | 6.62 | 10,448 |
| 4 | City of Lafayette - (LA) | Municipal | 41.7 | 0.62 | 71,521 |
| 5 | Panola-Harrison Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 67.3 | 0.10 | 11,242 |
| 6 | South Louisiana Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 86.8 | 1.46 | 21,420 |
| 7 | Entergy New Orleans, LLC | IOU | 141.5 | 1.27 | 209,071 |
| 8 | Entergy Louisiana LLC | IOU | 225.6 | 1.39 | 1,104,472 |
| 9 | Southwest Louisiana E M C | Cooperative | 242.7 | 2.80 | 115,809 |
| 10 | City of Ruston - (LA) | Municipal | 244.8 | 1.93 | 11,618 |
| 11 | Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) | Cooperative | 276.8 | 4.22 | 116,740 |
| 12 | Cleco Power LLC | IOU | 310.8 | 2.72 | 294,505 |
| 13 | Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc | Cooperative | 403.0 | 3.55 | 55,020 |
| 14 | Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 966.6 | 6.19 | 44,243 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Louisiana. Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (14 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (2.1M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Louisiana roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Louisiana: Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. (3.3 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Louisiana: Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc (966.6 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (9 of 14 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Pennsylvania (255.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Massachusetts (259.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: North Carolina (217.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Illinois (205.9 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Virginia (279.3 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.