Cooperative · Minnesota · EIA 6782
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative
Cooperative · Minnesota · 21K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 67 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative shows above-average chronic reliability in 2023: 67 minutes SAIDI excluding major events across 21K customers.
- 67 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 0.68
- SAIFI 2023
- 67 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 21K
- Customers
Chronic reliability judged on SAIDI excluding major event days when reported (IEEE 1366). Source: EIA Form 861 · August 2026.
Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).
What short-outage Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative filings show
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.
Based on this utility's own EIA Form 861 reliability record -- baseline (major-event- excluded) outage duration, total outage duration, and outage frequency -- each benchmarked against every reporting utility nationwide. Not a measure of electricity rates or customer service, which this portal does not track.
67 min/year per customer
Annual minutes without electric service (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative SAIDI trend
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
67 Among the lowest fewer outage minutes than 76% of 911 utilities
Utilities nationwide, banded by latest reported SAIDI (minutes)
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Source U.S. EIA Form 861 reliability filings · August 2026
Price vs. reliability
Where Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative charges more per customer than 67% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 79% of them, placing it in the quadrant where it pays more and is more reliable. Revenue per customer and outage minutes are independent figures: paying more does not guarantee fewer outages.
Revenue per customer: $2,834/year · Latest SAIDI: 67.4 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 67.4 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 107.8 | 62.3 | 1.250 | 21,088 |
| 2021 | 155.1 | 75.6 | 1.101 | 21,113 |
| 2022 | 74.7 | 61.0 | 0.740 | 21,174 |
| 2023 | 67.4 | 67.4 | 0.681 | 21,302 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative serves 40 ZIP codes in Minnesota.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative?
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative had a SAIDI of 67.4 minutes in 2023. Excluding major storm impacts, this beats the national average, a sign of above-average reliability.
What type of utility is Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative?
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative is classified as a Cooperative serving Minnesota.
How many customers does Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative serve?
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative serves approximately 20,937 customers in Minnesota.
How has Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative's reliability changed over time?
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). This utility's SAIDI has stayed fairly flat over the period. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- Minnesota
- Customers
- 20,937
- Annual Revenue
- $0.06B
- EIA ID
- 6782
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative. Same-state SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods are nearest other-state utilities with at least 10,000 reported customers.
Similar customer count
Nearest utilities by Form 861 customers (21K here), outside Minnesota.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (67.4 here), outside Minnesota, excluding the customer-peer set.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer · methodology.