FreeState Electric Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

FreeState Electric Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kansas under EIA identifier 10019. It reports service to approximately 18,856 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 38 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 FreeState Electric Coop customer experienced 402.7 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 381.9 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 402.7 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for FreeState Electric Coop, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 312.0 to 402.7 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.