Randolph Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Randolph Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 15671. It reports service to approximately 33,591 customer accounts and generated about $0.07 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 34 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 Randolph Electric Member Corp customer experienced 271.3 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.74 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 123.3 minutes; the difference from the headline 271.3 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Randolph Electric 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 195.3 to 271.3 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.