Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Virginia under EIA identifier 17066. It reports service to approximately 99,494 customer accounts and generated about $0.28 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 91 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 Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop customer experienced 182.8 minutes of power interruptions — a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI — the average number of outage events per customer — was 1.73 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 182.8 minutes — the gap between that figure and the headline 182.8 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 160.0 to 182.8 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization. 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.