Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc

Signature read: long interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (>258 min tercile cut).

What long-outage Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc filings show

Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Washington under EIA identifier 1723. It reports service to approximately 9,946 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 24 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 Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 317.5 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.13, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 226.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 317.5 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Big Bend Electric Coop, Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 163.8 to 317.5 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.