Haywood Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Haywood Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 8333. It reports service to approximately 28,813 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 44 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 Haywood Electric Member Corp customer experienced 635.4 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That exceeds the 120–180 minute national benchmark by a wide margin, a pattern often tied to severe weather exposure, older infrastructure, or longer repair windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 3.75, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 485.7 minutes; the difference from the headline 635.4 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Haywood Electric Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 1163.7 down to 635.4 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.