Umatilla Electric Coop Assn

Signature read: short interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (≤96 min tercile cut).

What short-outage Umatilla Electric Coop Assn filings show

Umatilla Electric Coop Assn is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Oregon under EIA identifier 19325. It reports service to approximately 16,364 customer accounts and generated about $0.59 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 21 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Umatilla Electric Coop Assn customer experienced 57.1 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 0.55 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 47.3 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 57.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Umatilla Electric Coop Assn's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 784.6 down to 57.1 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Umatilla Electric Coop Assn's other reported years.