Salmon River Electric Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Salmon River Electric Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Idaho under EIA identifier 16565. It reports service to approximately 2,932 customer accounts and generated about $0.01 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 11 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 Salmon River Electric Coop Inc customer experienced 533.1 minutes of power interruptions — a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. SAIFI — the average number of outage events per customer — was 2.55 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 533.1 minutes — the gap between that figure and the headline 533.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Only a single year of reliability data is available, so multi-year trend analysis is not yet possible for Salmon River Electric Coop Inc. All figures on this page come directly from EIA Form 861, the federal annual electric power industry survey, with service territory ZIPs sourced from OpenEI — you can cross-reference them with your own utility bill or use them when comparing providers before relocating.