South Kentucky Rural E C C

What This Utility Data Tells You

South Kentucky Rural E C C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 17564. It reports service to approximately 70,418 customer accounts and generated about $0.15 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 42 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 Kentucky Rural E C C customer experienced 1714.5 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.95, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 251.0 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 1714.5 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), South Kentucky Rural E C C's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI climbed from 378.6 to 1714.5 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.