Lake Country Power

What This Utility Data Tells You

Lake Country Power is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 10697. It reports service to approximately 51,086 customer accounts and generated about $0.11 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 103 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 Lake Country Power customer experienced 147.8 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.13 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 132.2 minutes, and the spread against the headline 147.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Lake Country Power, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 424.4 down to 147.8 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.