Central Virginia Electric Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Central Virginia Electric Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Virginia under EIA identifier 3291. It reports service to approximately 39,371 customer accounts and generated about $0.10 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 59 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 Virginia Electric Coop customer experienced 334.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.82, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 334.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 334.0 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Central Virginia Electric Coop, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 507.0 to 334.0 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.