Three Notch Elec Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Three Notch Elec Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 18499. It reports service to approximately 15,286 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 15 ZIP codes. Cooperative ownership means the utility is run for the benefit of the ratepayer-members who elect its board, rather than for shareholder returns, which can shift how rate and investment decisions get made.

In 2023, the average Three Notch Elec Member Corp customer experienced 870.0 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 6.40, putting the typical customer at roughly 6 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 438.0 minutes; the difference from the headline 870.0 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Three Notch Elec 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. SAIDI climbed from 370.0 to 870.0 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.