Mitchell Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Mitchell Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 12706. It reports service to approximately 25,601 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 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 Mitchell Electric Member Corp customer experienced 755.7 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or 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 4.30, putting the typical customer at roughly 4 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 514.1 minutes; the difference from the headline 755.7 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 Mitchell Electric Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 557.8 to 755.7 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.