Laurens Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Laurens Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in South Carolina under EIA identifier 10768. It reports service to approximately 63,685 customer accounts and generated about $0.14 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 28 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 Laurens Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 138.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.31, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 115.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 138.0 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Laurens Electric Coop, Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 172.1 to 138.0 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.