Homer Electric Assn Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Homer Electric Assn Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Alaska under EIA identifier 19558. It reports service to approximately 33,816 customer accounts and generated about $0.11 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 12 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 Homer Electric Assn Inc customer experienced 851.2 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.88, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 334.2 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 851.2 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Homer Electric Assn Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 474.9 to 851.2 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.