Cooperative · Florida · EIA 3502
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc
Cooperative · Florida · 63K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 167 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc shows above-average chronic reliability in 2023: 84 minutes SAIDI excluding major events (167 minutes including them) across 63K customers.
- 167 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 1.25
- SAIFI 2023
- 84 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 63K
- Customers
Chronic reliability judged on SAIDI excluding major event days when reported (IEEE 1366). Source: EIA Form 861 · August 2026.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 96 and 258 minute tercile cuts.
What mid-pack Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc filings show
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.
Based on this utility's own EIA Form 861 reliability record -- baseline (major-event- excluded) outage duration, total outage duration, and outage frequency -- each benchmarked against every reporting utility nationwide. Not a measure of electricity rates or customer service, which this portal does not track.
167 min/year per customer
Minutes without power per year (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc SAIDI trend
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
167 Around the middle fewer outage minutes than 49% of 911 utilities
Utilities nationwide, banded by latest reported SAIDI (minutes)
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Source U.S. EIA Form 861 reliability filings · August 2026
Price vs. reliability
Where Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc charges more per customer than 18% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 53% of them, placing it in the quadrant where it pays less while still being more reliable, the best-value quadrant. Revenue per customer and outage minutes are independent figures: paying more does not guarantee fewer outages.
Revenue per customer: $2,053/year · Latest SAIDI: 167.4 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 167.4 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 259.2 | 70.0 | 1.890 | 54,917 |
| 2021 | 86.4 | 68.1 | 1.032 | 57,350 |
| 2022 | 73.2 | 61.8 | 0.836 | 59,696 |
| 2023 | 167.4 | 83.6 | 1.253 | 62,041 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc serves 26 ZIP codes in Florida.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc?
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc had a SAIDI of 167.4 minutes in 2023 including major weather events, but 83.6 minutes excluding them (the IEEE-standard measure of day-to-day reliability, the gap reflects a major storm that year, not chronic performance). Excluding major weather events, this is below the national average, indicating above-average reliability.
What type of utility is Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc?
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc is classified as a Cooperative serving Florida.
How many customers does Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc serve?
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc serves approximately 63,075 customers in Florida.
How has Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc's reliability changed over time?
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has held roughly steady across these years. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- Florida
- Customers
- 63,075
- Annual Revenue
- $0.13B
- EIA ID
- 3502
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc. Same-state SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods are nearest other-state utilities with at least 10,000 reported customers.
Similar customer count
Nearest utilities by Form 861 customers (63K here), outside Florida.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (167.4 here), outside Florida, excluding the customer-peer set.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer · methodology.