Menard Electric Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Menard Electric Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Illinois under EIA identifier 12395. It reports service to approximately 10,961 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 55 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 Menard Electric Coop customer experienced 446.7 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.47, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 98.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 446.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Menard Electric Coop 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 151.9 to 446.7 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.