Cooperative · Wisconsin · EIA 15344
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop
Cooperative · Wisconsin · 22K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 117 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop shows above-average chronic reliability in 2023: 40 minutes SAIDI excluding major events (117 minutes including them) across 22K customers.
- 117 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 1.30
- SAIFI 2023
- 40 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 22K
- 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 Polk-Burnett Electric Coop filings show
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Wisconsin under EIA identifier 15344. It reports service to approximately 21,875 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 26 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 Polk-Burnett Electric Coop customer experienced 117.4 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.30, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 40.5 minutes; the difference from the headline 117.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 209.4 to 117.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.
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.
117 outage minutes per customer annually
Annual minutes without electric service (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Polk-Burnett Electric Coop from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop SAIDI trend
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
117 Lower than most fewer outage minutes than 61% of 911 utilities
Utilities nationwide, banded by latest reported SAIDI (minutes)
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Source U.S. EIA Form 861 reliability filings · August 2026
Price vs. reliability
Where Polk-Burnett Electric Coop sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Polk-Burnett Electric Coop charges more per customer than 3% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 65% of them, placing it in the quadrant where it pays less while still being more reliable, the best-value quadrant. Revenue per customer and outage minutes are independent figures: paying more does not guarantee fewer outages.
Revenue per customer: $1,642/year · Latest SAIDI: 117.4 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 117.4 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 209.4 | 42.0 | 1.750 | 21,121 |
| 2021 | 54.1 | 43.4 | 0.705 | 21,289 |
| 2022 | 101.0 | 34.5 | 1.148 | 21,606 |
| 2023 | 117.4 | 40.5 | 1.298 | 21,882 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop serves 26 ZIP codes in Wisconsin.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Polk-Burnett Electric Coop?
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop had a SAIDI of 117.4 minutes in 2023 including major weather events, but 40.5 minutes excluding them (the IEEE-standard measure of day-to-day reliability, the gap reflects a major storm that year, not chronic performance). Excluding major weather events, this is below the national average, indicating above-average reliability.
What type of utility is Polk-Burnett Electric Coop?
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop is classified as a Cooperative serving Wisconsin.
How many customers does Polk-Burnett Electric Coop serve?
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop serves approximately 21,875 customers in Wisconsin.
How has Polk-Burnett Electric Coop's reliability changed over time?
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has remained relatively stable over this period. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- Wisconsin
- Customers
- 21,875
- Annual Revenue
- $0.04B
- EIA ID
- 15344
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Polk-Burnett Electric Coop. 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 (22K here), outside Wisconsin.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (117.4 here), outside Wisconsin, 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.