State · EIA Form 861 · GA
Georgia
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Georgia utilities come from the federal annual survey. 33 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: mid-cohort SAIDI between the 156 and 365 minute tercile cuts (51 states with averages).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Georgia
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Georgia sits mid-pack on SAIDI at 345.9 minutes across 33 EIA Form 861 utilities, spanning Newnan Wtr, Sewer & Light Comm lowest at 22.1 to Amicalola Electric Member Corp highest at 1461.4.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Georgia 345.9
- California 346.5
- North Dakota 364.7
- Ohio 366.2
- Missouri 374.2
- Alaska 375.3
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Georgia vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
33 Top 18% more reporting utilities than 82% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability
All 33 electric utilities in Georgia with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI (fewest outage minutes first).
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Georgia
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Georgia utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Georgia
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newnan Wtr, Sewer & Light Comm | Municipal | 22.1 | 0.70 | 10,830 |
| 2 | Cobb Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 37.4 | 0.89 | 220,910 |
| 3 | City of Calhoun - (GA) | Municipal | 91.8 | 0.91 | 5,695 |
| 4 | Hart Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 97.8 | 1.30 | 39,140 |
| 5 | Albany Utility Board | Municipal | 116.3 | 1.28 | 33,109 |
| 6 | Flint Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 143.0 | 1.43 | 94,521 |
| 7 | Jefferson Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 178.3 | 1.69 | 36,633 |
| 8 | Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | Cooperative | 182.3 | 0.97 | 197,515 |
| 9 | Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | Cooperative | 192.5 | 1.76 | 55,425 |
| 10 | GreyStone Power Corporation | Cooperative | 196.8 | 1.96 | 147,547 |
| 11 | City of Marietta - (GA) | Municipal | 206.2 | 2.93 | 42,330 |
| 12 | Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | Cooperative | 208.8 | 1.58 | 254,521 |
| 13 | Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | Cooperative | 222.0 | 2.14 | 87,570 |
| 14 | Walton Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 233.6 | 2.17 | 139,661 |
| 15 | North Georgia Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 254.1 | 2.29 | 104,952 |
| 16 | Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA) | Cooperative | 260.3 | 1.75 | 23,094 |
| 17 | Habersham Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 323.2 | 2.54 | 37,109 |
| 18 | Sumter Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 351.6 | - | 21,154 |
| 19 | Georgia Power Co | IOU | 365.1 | 1.75 | 2,735,271 |
| 20 | Altamaha Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 424.7 | 2.00 | 21,672 |
| 21 | Rayle Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 456.0 | 3.13 | 19,644 |
| 22 | Coastal Electric Member Corp - (GA) | Cooperative | 495.1 | 4.07 | 22,899 |
| 23 | Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | Cooperative | 550.6 | 1.58 | 106,972 |
| 24 | Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | Cooperative | 641.1 | 4.78 | 38,202 |
| 25 | Southern Rivers Energy | Cooperative | 706.8 | 4.80 | 21,240 |
| 26 | Washington Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 715.9 | - | 16,211 |
| 27 | Grady Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 719.2 | 4.82 | 20,389 |
| 28 | Mitchell Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 755.7 | 4.30 | 25,601 |
| 29 | City of Thomasville - (GA) | Municipal | 784.5 | 5.11 | 16,640 |
| 30 | Three Notch Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 870.0 | 6.40 | 15,286 |
| 31 | Central Georgia El Member Corp | Cooperative | 910.4 | 2.06 | 65,784 |
| 32 | Excelsior Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 922.0 | - | 25,288 |
| 33 | Amicalola Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 1461.4 | 4.77 | 55,006 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Two cross-state peer sets for Georgia. Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (33 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (4.8M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Georgia roster
- Lowest published SAIDI in Georgia: Newnan Wtr, Sewer & Light Comm (22.1 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Georgia: Amicalola Electric Member Corp (1461.4 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (27 of 33 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: California (346.5 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: North Dakota (364.7 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Ohio (366.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Missouri (374.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Alaska (375.3 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.