Northeastern Rural E M C

What This Utility Data Tells You

Northeastern Rural E M C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 20603. It reports service to approximately 31,942 customer accounts and generated about $0.12 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 17 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 Northeastern Rural E M C customer experienced 45.1 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (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 0.86 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 45.1 minutes, and the spread against the headline 45.1 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Northeastern Rural E M C, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 121.3 to 45.1 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.