Harrison County Rural E M C

What This Utility Data Tells You

Harrison County Rural E M C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 8179. It reports service to approximately 24,370 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 23 ZIP codes. Being member-owned, this cooperative answers to its ratepayers rather than outside shareholders, a structure that tends to influence how rate cases and capital spending get decided.

In 2023, the average Harrison County Rural E M C customer experienced 906.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 3.80 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 4 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 146.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 906.0 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Harrison County Rural E M C's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 173.0 to 906.0 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.