Brunswick Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Brunswick Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 24889. It reports service to approximately 108,663 customer accounts and generated about $0.20 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 35 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 Brunswick Electric Member Corp customer experienced 56.6 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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 0.89 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 25.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 56.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Brunswick Electric Member Corp has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 641.1 to 56.6 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Brunswick Electric Member Corp's other reported years.