South Central Indiana REMC

What This Utility Data Tells You

South Central Indiana REMC is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 12929. It reports service to approximately 35,160 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 36 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 South Central Indiana REMC customer experienced 2766.3 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, 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 4.61 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 258.5 minutes, and the spread against the headline 2766.3 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for South Central Indiana REMC, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 621.7 to 2766.3 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.