Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Florida under EIA identifier 31833. It reports service to approximately 29,299 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 46 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 Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp customer experienced 787.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 4.32 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 4 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 280.7 minutes; the difference from the headline 787.0 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 282.8 to 787.0 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.