French Broad Elec Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

French Broad Elec Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 6784. It reports service to approximately 39,570 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 30 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 French Broad Elec Member Corp customer experienced 206.6 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. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.74, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year.

French Broad Elec 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 climbed from 101.4 to 206.6 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.