Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Tennessee under EIA identifier 40236. It reports service to approximately 10,126 customer accounts and generated about $0.02 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 16 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 Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 466.2 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 3.30, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 225.3 minutes; the difference from the headline 466.2 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 Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 208.3 to 466.2 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.