Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 19435. It reports service to approximately 85,715 customer accounts and generated about $0.17 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 32 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 Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) customer experienced 88.0 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 0.89 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 59.3 minutes, and the spread against the headline 88.0 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 186.7 to 88.0 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.