Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Washington under EIA identifier 4041. It reports service to approximately 6,490 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 15 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 Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc customer experienced 95.4 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.67 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 95.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 95.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Columbia Rural Elec Assn, Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 313.4 down to 95.4 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.