Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 18940. It reports service to approximately 29,828 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 30 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp customer experienced 406.3 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.28 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 176.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 406.3 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 180.4 to 406.3 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.