Cooperative · Mississippi · EIA 14563
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn
Cooperative · Mississippi · 53K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 191 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn shows near-benchmark chronic reliability in 2023: 191 minutes SAIDI excluding major events across 53K customers.
- 191 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 2.56
- SAIFI 2023
- 191 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 53K
- Customers
Chronic reliability judged on SAIDI excluding major event days when reported (IEEE 1366). Source: EIA Form 861 · August 2026.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 96 and 258 minute tercile cuts.
What mid-pack Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn filings show
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Mississippi under EIA identifier 14563. It reports service to approximately 53,323 customer accounts and generated about $0.14 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 31 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 Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn customer experienced 191.1 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.56, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 191.1 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 191.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.
The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 950.8 to 191.1 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.
Based on this utility's own EIA Form 861 reliability record -- baseline (major-event- excluded) outage duration, total outage duration, and outage frequency -- each benchmarked against every reporting utility nationwide. Not a measure of electricity rates or customer service, which this portal does not track.
191 min/year per customer
Power-out minutes per year (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn SAIDI trend
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
191 Around the middle fewer outage minutes than 44% of 911 utilities
Utilities nationwide, banded by latest reported SAIDI (minutes)
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more utilities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. EIA Form 861 reliability filings · August 2026
Price vs. reliability
Where Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn charges more per customer than 51% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 48% of them, placing it in the quadrant where it pays more but is LESS reliable, a premium price without a reliability payoff. Revenue per customer and outage minutes are independent figures: paying more does not guarantee fewer outages.
Revenue per customer: $2,550/year · Latest SAIDI: 191.1 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 191.1 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 950.8 | 200.7 | 2.787 | 50,750 |
| 2021 | 410.7 | 152.1 | 2.447 | 51,579 |
| 2022 | 163.3 | 163.3 | 2.089 | 52,313 |
| 2023 | 191.1 | 191.1 | 2.558 | 52,966 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn serves 31 ZIP codes in Mississippi.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn?
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn had a SAIDI of 191.1 minutes in 2023. Excluding major weather events, this is near the national average.
What type of utility is Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn?
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn is classified as a Cooperative serving Mississippi.
How many customers does Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn serve?
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn serves approximately 53,323 customers in Mississippi.
How has Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn's reliability changed over time?
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has held roughly steady across these years. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- Mississippi
- Customers
- 53,323
- Annual Revenue
- $0.14B
- EIA ID
- 14563
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn. Same-state SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods are nearest other-state utilities with at least 10,000 reported customers.
Similar customer count
Nearest utilities by Form 861 customers (53K here), outside Mississippi.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (191.1 here), outside Mississippi, excluding the customer-peer set.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer · methodology.