Tallahatchie Valley E P A

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tallahatchie Valley E P A is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Mississippi under EIA identifier 18447. It reports service to approximately 28,404 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 41 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 Tallahatchie Valley E P A customer experienced 989.1 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 5.30 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 507.8 minutes; the difference from the headline 989.1 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Tallahatchie Valley E P A has 3 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2021–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 468.7 to 989.1 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.