Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 19162. It reports service to approximately 30,070 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 48 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 Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) customer experienced 1006.2 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 3.97 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 4 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 383.4 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 1006.2 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 329.1 to 1006.2 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.