Cherryland Electric Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Cherryland Electric Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Michigan under EIA identifier 3436. It reports service to approximately 38,006 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 42 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 Cherryland Electric Coop Inc customer experienced 108.9 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.82 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 47.5 minutes; the difference from the headline 108.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Cherryland 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. SAIDI has increased from 107.2 to 108.9 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.