Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Oklahoma under EIA identifier 3226. It reports service to approximately 24,054 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 35 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 Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc customer experienced 543.9 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.67 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 159.6 minutes; the difference from the headline 543.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 2296.6 to 543.9 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.