Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Texas under EIA identifier 19579. It reports service to approximately 50,127 customer accounts and generated about $0.11 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 24 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 Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp customer experienced 5663.1 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 6.13, putting the typical customer at roughly 6 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 880.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 5663.1 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 1863.5 to 5663.1 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.