Verendrye Electric Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Verendrye Electric Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Dakota under EIA identifier 19790. It reports service to approximately 16,637 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 47 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 Verendrye Electric Coop Inc customer experienced 47.2 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.63, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 47.2 minutes, and the spread against the headline 47.2 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Verendrye Electric Coop Inc's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 48.8 down to 47.2 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.