Hendricks County Rural E M C

What This Utility Data Tells You

Hendricks County Rural E M C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 8447. It reports service to approximately 37,644 customer accounts and generated about $0.10 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 30 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Hendricks County Rural E M C customer experienced 229.1 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.50 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 71.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 229.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Hendricks County Rural E M C, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 124.5 to 229.1 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.