Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Arkansas under EIA identifier 3712. It reports service to approximately 13,243 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 39 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 2023, the average Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) customer experienced 750.7 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.57, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 305.3 minutes, and the spread against the headline 750.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 233.3 to 750.7 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.