Linn County REC

What This Utility Data Tells You

Linn County REC is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Iowa under EIA identifier 11053. It reports service to approximately 33,783 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 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 Linn County REC customer experienced 126.0 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.82, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 126.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 126.0 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Linn County REC has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 3483.0 to 126.0 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Linn County REC's other reported years.