Bandera Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Bandera Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Texas under EIA identifier 1175. It reports service to approximately 41,188 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 34 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Bandera Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 141.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.03 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 48.7 minutes, and the spread against the headline 141.9 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Bandera Electric Coop, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has improved from 181.4 to 141.9 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.