South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Alabama under EIA identifier 17534. It reports service to approximately 17,456 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 27 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 South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc customer experienced 1067.5 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.16, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 322.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 1067.5 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 1682.7 down to 1067.5 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.