East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Iowa under EIA identifier 5588. It reports service to approximately 9,196 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 49 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 East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop customer experienced 51.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.65 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 51.6 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 51.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 848.0 down to 51.6 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop's other reported years.