Tideland Electric Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tideland Electric Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 19108. It reports service to approximately 24,003 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 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 Tideland Electric Member Corp customer experienced 459.5 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. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 3.49 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 293.4 minutes, and the spread against the headline 459.5 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Tideland Electric Member Corp, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI has improved from 843.2 to 459.5 minutes over that window, a meaningful direction for prospective customers and regulators watching capital investment outcomes.