Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Florida under EIA identifier 3502. It reports service to approximately 63,075 customer accounts and generated about $0.13 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 26 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 Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc customer experienced 167.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.25 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 83.6 minutes, and the spread against the headline 167.4 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 259.2 to 167.4 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.