Kiamichi Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Kiamichi Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Oklahoma under EIA identifier 10170. It reports service to approximately 23,294 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Kiamichi Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 1757.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.38, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 535.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 1757.0 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Kiamichi Electric Coop, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 1255.9 to 1757.0 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.