Carteret-Craven El Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Carteret-Craven El Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 3107. It reports service to approximately 42,604 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 20 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Carteret-Craven El Member Corp customer experienced 180.0 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.45 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 81.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 180.0 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Only a single year of reliability data is available, so multi-year trend analysis is not yet possible for Carteret-Craven El Member Corp.