Lumbee River Elec Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Lumbee River Elec Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 11291. It reports service to approximately 65,846 customer accounts and generated about $0.15 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 31 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 Lumbee River Elec Member Corp customer experienced 173.7 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. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 1.61 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 123.7 minutes; the difference from the headline 173.7 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Lumbee River 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. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 158.2 to 173.7 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.