West Kentucky Rural E C C

What This Utility Data Tells You

West Kentucky Rural E C C is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 20377. It reports service to approximately 38,867 customer accounts and generated about $0.09 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 30 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average West Kentucky Rural E C C customer experienced 645.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.86 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 214.8 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 645.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for West Kentucky Rural E C C, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 159.7 to 645.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.