Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Ohio under EIA identifier 2502. It reports service to approximately 18,700 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 43 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 Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc customer experienced 1712.4 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 3.36 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 1708.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 1712.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 495.6 to 1712.4 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.