Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Louisiana under EIA identifier 5202. It reports service to approximately 116,740 customer accounts and generated about $0.25 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 114 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 Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) customer experienced 276.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.22, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 236.7 minutes, and the spread against the headline 276.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA)'s reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has improved from 1136.2 to 276.8 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.