Scenic Rivers Energy Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Scenic Rivers Energy Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Wisconsin under EIA identifier 16740. It reports service to approximately 14,519 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 46 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 Scenic Rivers Energy Coop customer experienced 93.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.20 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 91.3 minutes; the difference from the headline 93.8 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Scenic Rivers Energy Coop's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI climbed from 92.8 to 93.8 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.