Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

What This Utility Data Tells You

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.