People's Electric Cooperative

What This Utility Data Tells You

People's Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Oklahoma under EIA identifier 14775. It reports service to approximately 22,997 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 46 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average People's Electric Cooperative customer experienced 353.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 3.00 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 304.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 353.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

People's Electric Cooperative 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 274.4 to 353.8 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.