Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

What This Utility Data Tells You

Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 4622. It reports service to approximately 24,054 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 58 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. customer experienced 737.0 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.58, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 339.7 minutes, and the spread against the headline 737.0 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Cumberland Valley Electric, 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 2012.6 down to 737.0 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.