Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative

What This Utility Data Tells You

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Virginia under EIA identifier 12260. It reports service to approximately 31,865 customer accounts and generated about $0.10 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 76 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 Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative customer experienced 244.4 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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.06 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 244.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 244.4 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 228.0 to 244.4 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.