Central Georgia El Member Corp

Signature read: long interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (>258 min tercile cut).

What long-outage Central Georgia El Member Corp filings show

Central Georgia El Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 3248. It reports service to approximately 65,784 customer accounts and generated about $0.15 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 35 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 Central Georgia El Member Corp customer experienced 910.4 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.06 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 102.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 910.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Central Georgia El Member Corp's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 106.3 to 910.4 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.