Cleco Power LLC

What This Utility Data Tells You

Cleco Power LLC is an investor-owned utility operating in Louisiana under EIA identifier 3265. It reports service to approximately 294,505 customer accounts and generated about $0.97 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 179 ZIP codes. Investor ownership puts this utility under the regulatory authority of the state public utility commission, which reviews its rate requests and reliability record.

In 2023, the average Cleco Power LLC customer experienced 310.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.72 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 146.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 310.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Cleco Power LLC has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 172.2 to 310.8 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.