Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Florida under EIA identifier 10857. It reports service to approximately 246,484 customer accounts and generated about $0.64 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 79 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 Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) customer experienced 95.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.26, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 80.9 minutes, and the spread against the headline 95.6 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 99.7 down to 95.6 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.