Amicalola Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Amicalola Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 562. It reports service to approximately 55,006 customer accounts and generated about $0.10 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 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 Amicalola Electric Member Corp customer experienced 1461.4 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.77, putting the typical customer at roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 432.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 1461.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Amicalola Electric Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 2965.3 down to 1461.4 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.