People's Cooperative Services

What This Utility Data Tells You

People's Cooperative Services is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 14468. It reports service to approximately 23,726 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 38 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 People's Cooperative Services customer experienced 89.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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 1.09 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 69.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 89.2 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

People's Cooperative Services has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 73.6 to 89.2 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.