Meade County Rural E C C

What This Utility Data Tells You

Meade County Rural E C C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 12243. It reports service to approximately 31,138 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Meade County Rural E C C customer experienced 634.7 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.92 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 98.7 minutes, and the spread against the headline 634.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Meade County Rural E C C's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 67.9 to 634.7 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.