Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 1891. It reports service to approximately 38,202 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 22 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 Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) customer experienced 641.1 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). 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 4.78, putting the typical customer at roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 322.1 minutes; the difference from the headline 641.1 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) has 3 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2021–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 304.9 to 641.1 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.