Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation

What This Utility Data Tells You

Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 16865. It reports service to approximately 197,515 customer accounts and generated about $0.43 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 27 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 Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation customer experienced 182.3 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.97, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 24.9 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 182.3 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 256.8 down to 182.3 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes.