Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc

Signature read: long interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (>258 min tercile cut).

What long-outage Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc filings show

Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Dakota under EIA identifier 4717. It reports service to approximately 6,860 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 46 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc customer experienced 2339.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 2.73, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 153.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 2339.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Dakota Valley Elec Coop Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI climbed from 409.8 to 2339.4 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.