Poudre Valley REA, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Poudre Valley REA, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Colorado under EIA identifier 15257. It reports service to approximately 53,213 customer accounts and generated about $0.14 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Poudre Valley REA, Inc customer experienced 66.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.68 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 66.6 minutes; the difference from the headline 66.6 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Poudre Valley REA, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 135.8 down to 66.6 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.