McKenzie Electric Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

McKenzie Electric Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Dakota under EIA identifier 12087. It reports service to approximately 13,511 customer accounts and generated about $0.41 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 29 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 McKenzie Electric Coop Inc customer experienced 142.5 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.24 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 142.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 142.5 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), McKenzie Electric Coop Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 199.9 down to 142.5 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.