Federated Rural Electric Assn

What This Utility Data Tells You

Federated Rural Electric Assn is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 6258. It reports service to approximately 6,977 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 31 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 Federated Rural Electric Assn customer experienced 107.9 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 1.21, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 107.9 minutes, and the spread against the headline 107.9 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Federated Rural Electric Assn has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 207.2 to 107.9 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.