First Electric Coop Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

First Electric Coop Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Arkansas under EIA identifier 6342. It reports service to approximately 102,267 customer accounts and generated about $0.22 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 103 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 First Electric Coop Corp customer experienced 692.5 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.52 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 192.5 minutes; the difference from the headline 692.5 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for First Electric Coop Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 501.6 to 692.5 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.