Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn

What This Utility Data Tells You

Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 18019. It reports service to approximately 28,292 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 43 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 Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn customer experienced 100.4 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 1.11, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 89.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 100.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 103.8 to 100.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.