Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc

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

What short-outage Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc filings show

Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kansas under EIA identifier 296. It reports service to approximately 7,573 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 47 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 51.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.49 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 0 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 51.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 51.9 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 76.2 down to 51.9 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.