Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn

What This Utility Data Tells You

Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Minnesota under EIA identifier 20996. It reports service to approximately 56,289 customer accounts and generated about $0.12 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn customer experienced 61.7 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.76 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 28.2 minutes, and the spread against the headline 61.7 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 29.1 to 61.7 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.