SEMO Electric Cooperative

What This Utility Data Tells You

SEMO Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Missouri under EIA identifier 16805. It reports service to approximately 16,248 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 35 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 SEMO Electric Cooperative customer experienced 687.5 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.53, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 687.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 687.5 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

SEMO Electric Cooperative has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 165.0 to 687.5 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.