Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop

What This Utility Data Tells You

Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 17267. It reports service to approximately 24,754 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 64 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 Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop customer experienced 47.8 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.06, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 47.8 minutes; the difference from the headline 47.8 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 100.8 to 47.8 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.