Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Tennessee under EIA identifier 40166. It reports service to approximately 22,670 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 16 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2022, the average Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 1364.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 5.70 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 6 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 531.1 minutes, and the spread against the headline 1364.6 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 3 years of continuous reporting (2020–2022) for Chickasaw Electric 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 206.4 to 1364.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.