Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 1708. It reports service to approximately 12,636 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 50 ZIP codes. Being member-owned, this cooperative answers to its ratepayers rather than outside shareholders, a structure that tends to influence how rate cases and capital spending get decided.

In 2023, the average Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp customer experienced 1314.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.30, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 882.8 minutes; the difference from the headline 1314.6 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 737.0 to 1314.6 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.