Whitewater Valley Rural EMC

What This Utility Data Tells You

Whitewater Valley Rural EMC is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Indiana under EIA identifier 20216. It reports service to approximately 12,155 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 35 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 Whitewater Valley Rural EMC customer experienced 239.7 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.30 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 239.7 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 239.7 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Whitewater Valley Rural EMC, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 195.4 to 239.7 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.