Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Florida under EIA identifier 7785. It reports service to approximately 22,302 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 24 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 Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 781.0 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 4.90 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 599.6 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 781.0 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 752.3 to 781.0 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.