Licking Rural Electric Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Licking Rural Electric Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Ohio under EIA identifier 10668. It reports service to approximately 27,346 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 29 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 Licking Rural Electric Inc customer experienced 378.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.90 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 106.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 378.2 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Licking Rural Electric Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 260.4 to 378.2 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.