Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Alabama under EIA identifier 20841. It reports service to approximately 26,530 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 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 Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc customer experienced 377.4 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 3.26 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 110.0 minutes; the difference from the headline 377.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc 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 window, SAIDI moved from 1190.1 down to 377.4 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.