Iowa Lakes Electric Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Iowa Lakes Electric Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Iowa under EIA identifier 9425. It reports service to approximately 13,138 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 76 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 Iowa Lakes Electric Coop customer experienced 51.7 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). 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 0.51 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 51.6 minutes, and the spread against the headline 51.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Iowa Lakes Electric Coop, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 102.8 to 51.7 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.