Roanoke Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Roanoke Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 16101. It reports service to approximately 14,362 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 46 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 Roanoke Electric Member Corp customer experienced 130.1 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 1.08, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 130.1 minutes; the difference from the headline 130.1 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Roanoke Electric Member Corp's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI dropped from 421.1 to 130.1 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.