Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Arkansas under EIA identifier 14864. It reports service to approximately 20,589 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 37 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 Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp customer experienced 836.1 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.43 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 177.8 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 836.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 348.9 to 836.1 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.