Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation

What This Utility Data Tells You

Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 9605. It reports service to approximately 30,536 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 31 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 Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation customer experienced 418.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.66 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 153.6 minutes, and the spread against the headline 418.6 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 103.3 to 418.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.