Southern Rivers Energy

What This Utility Data Tells You

Southern Rivers Energy is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 10624. It reports service to approximately 21,240 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 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 Southern Rivers Energy customer experienced 706.8 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that lands within the usual 120–180 minute national benchmark band, roughly on par with typical U.S. distribution-utility performance. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 4.80, putting the typical customer at roughly 5 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 299.3 minutes, and the spread against the headline 706.8 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Southern Rivers Energy's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 430.4 to 706.8 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.