Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 3250. It reports service to approximately 24,302 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 24 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 Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) customer experienced 318.6 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 163.2 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 318.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 263.4 to 318.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.