Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Ohio under EIA identifier 19501. It reports service to approximately 11,806 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 18 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 Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 196.8 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.20 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 70.0 minutes, and the spread against the headline 196.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 69.6 to 196.8 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.