Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in New Mexico under EIA identifier 10378. It reports service to approximately 30,420 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 41 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 Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 399.7 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.28 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 316.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 399.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 161.5 to 399.7 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.