Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Ohio under EIA identifier 12515. It reports service to approximately 11,127 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 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 Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) customer experienced 329.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.67 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 70.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 329.6 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 274.1 to 329.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.