Mountain Parks Electric, Inc

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage Mountain Parks Electric, Inc filings show

Mountain Parks Electric, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Colorado under EIA identifier 13050. It reports service to approximately 22,347 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 30 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 Mountain Parks Electric, Inc customer experienced 73.5 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.88 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 73.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 73.5 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Mountain Parks Electric, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI dropped from 885.8 to 73.5 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Mountain Parks Electric, Inc's other reported years.