Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 18956. It reports service to approximately 23,094 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 16 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 Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA) customer experienced 260.3 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 1.75, putting the typical customer at roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 124.1 minutes, and the spread against the headline 260.3 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA)'s reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI has increased from 177.7 to 260.3 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.