Heartland Power Coop

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage Heartland Power Coop filings show

Heartland Power Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Iowa under EIA identifier 8319. It reports service to approximately 5,301 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Heartland Power Coop customer experienced 54.9 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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 0.65, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 54.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 54.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Heartland Power Coop's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI dropped from 139.1 to 54.9 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.