Cooperative · Minnesota · EIA 4577
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp
Cooperative · Minnesota · 47K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 75 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp shows above-average chronic reliability in 2023: 56 minutes SAIDI excluding major events across 47K customers.
- 75 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 0.70
- SAIFI 2023
- 56 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 47K
- Customers
Chronic reliability judged on SAIDI excluding major event days when reported (IEEE 1366). Source: EIA Form 861 · August 2026.
Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).
What short-outage Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp filings show
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 4577. It reports service to approximately 47,289 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 39 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 Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp customer experienced 75.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.70, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 56.4 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 75.4 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 108.3 to 75.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.
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.
75 minutes per customer per year
Power-out minutes per year (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp SAIDI trend
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
75 Lower than most fewer outage minutes than 73% 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 Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp charges more per customer than 8% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 76% 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: $1,806/year · Latest SAIDI: 75.4 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 75.4 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 108.3 | 56.1 | 0.724 | 44,281 |
| 2021 | 90.2 | 83.9 | 0.861 | 44,645 |
| 2022 | 1196.2 | 76.7 | 2.062 | 46,662 |
| 2023 | 75.4 | 56.4 | 0.705 | 47,211 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp serves 39 ZIP codes in Minnesota.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp?
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp had a SAIDI of 75.4 minutes in 2023. Excluding major storm impacts, this beats the national average, a sign of above-average reliability.
What type of utility is Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp?
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp is classified as a Cooperative serving Minnesota.
How many customers does Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp serve?
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp serves approximately 47,289 customers in Minnesota.
How has Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp's reliability changed over time?
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). This utility's SAIDI has stayed fairly flat over the period. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- Minnesota
- Customers
- 47,289
- Annual Revenue
- $0.09B
- EIA ID
- 4577
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp. 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 (47K here), outside Minnesota.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (75.4 here), outside Minnesota, 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.