Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative

What This Utility Data Tells You

Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 6782. It reports service to approximately 20,937 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 40 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 Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative customer experienced 67.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.68, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 67.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 67.4 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 107.8 to 67.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.