Corn Belt Energy Corporation

What This Utility Data Tells You

Corn Belt Energy Corporation is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Illinois under EIA identifier 4362. It reports service to approximately 36,995 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 115 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 Corn Belt Energy Corporation customer experienced 392.9 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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.54, putting the typical customer at roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 158.5 minutes; the difference from the headline 392.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Corn Belt Energy Corporation 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 314.9 to 392.9 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.