Habersham Electric Membership Corp

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

What long-outage Habersham Electric Membership Corp filings show

Habersham Electric Membership Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 7887. It reports service to approximately 37,109 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 22 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 Habersham Electric Membership Corp customer experienced 323.2 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 2.54, putting the typical customer at roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 197.3 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 323.2 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Habersham Electric Membership 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 2559.1 to 323.2 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 Habersham Electric Membership Corp's other reported years.