Jefferson Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Jefferson Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 9689. It reports service to approximately 36,633 customer accounts and generated about $0.08 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 Jefferson Electric Member Corp customer experienced 178.3 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.69, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 100.2 minutes; the difference from the headline 178.3 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 Jefferson Electric Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 144.6 to 178.3 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.