Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC

Signature read: long interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (>258 min tercile cut).

What long-outage Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC filings show

Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 19667. It reports service to approximately 19,888 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 42 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 Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC customer experienced 1300.3 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.32, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 272.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 1300.3 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC 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 532.6 to 1300.3 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.