Owen Electric Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Owen Electric Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 14251. It reports service to approximately 65,994 customer accounts and generated about $0.23 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Owen Electric Coop Inc customer experienced 226.1 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.62, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 98.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 226.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Owen Electric Coop Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 160.6 to 226.1 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.