Cooperative · North Carolina · EIA 19981
Wake Electric Membership Corp
Cooperative · North Carolina · 54K customers. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, reliability for 2023 shows SAIDI 278 minutes/customer.
Reliability verdict
Wake Electric Membership Corp shows above-average chronic reliability in 2023: 98 minutes SAIDI excluding major events (278 minutes including them) across 54K customers.
- 278 min
- SAIDI 2023
- 2.37
- SAIFI 2023
- 98 min
- SAIDI ex-MED
- 54K
- Customers
Chronic reliability judged on SAIDI excluding major event days when reported (IEEE 1366). Source: EIA Form 861 · August 2026.
Signature read: long interruption minutes vs the 911 utility cohort (>258 min tercile cut).
What long-outage Wake Electric Membership Corp filings show
Wake Electric Membership Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in North Carolina under EIA identifier 19981. It reports service to approximately 53,873 customer accounts and generated about $0.10 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 26 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 Wake Electric Membership Corp customer experienced 277.7 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. Excluding major weather events from that total, that is comfortably under the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, a sign of solid grid resilience and quick outage response. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 2.37 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 98.4 minutes; the difference from the headline 277.7 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.
Wake Electric Membership Corp has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 157.9 to 277.7 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.
Based on this utility's own EIA Form 861 reliability record -- baseline (major-event- excluded) outage duration, total outage duration, and outage frequency -- each benchmarked against every reporting utility nationwide. Not a measure of electricity rates or customer service, which this portal does not track.
278 minutes per customer per year
Power-out minutes per year (2023)
SAIDI by year (2020-2023)
Minutes per customer-year · EIA Form 861
Year-by-year SAIDI for Wake Electric Membership Corp from the same EIA filings as the table below. Lower is better; major-event years can spike the headline figure.
Wake Electric Membership Corp SAIDI trend
Wake Electric Membership Corp vs the nationwide SAIDI distribution
Where this utility's headline SAIDI sits among every EIA Form 861 utility with a reported figure
278 Around the middle fewer outage minutes than 32% of 911 utilities
Utilities nationwide, banded by latest reported SAIDI (minutes)
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more utilities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. EIA Form 861 reliability filings · August 2026
Price vs. reliability
Where Wake Electric Membership Corp sits on price vs. reliability
Among the 781 U.S. utilities large enough to report both revenue per customer and a recent outage record, Wake Electric Membership Corp charges more per customer than 8% of them, and is more reliable (lower SAIDI) than 34% of them, placing it in the quadrant where it pays less and is less reliable. Revenue per customer and outage minutes are independent figures: paying more does not guarantee fewer outages.
Revenue per customer: $1,845/year · Latest SAIDI: 277.7 minutes/year.
SAIDI 2023 breakdown: 277.7 minutes
Reliability Trend (2020–2023)
| Year | SAIDI (min) | SAIDI nMED | SAIFI | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 157.9 | 63.5 | 1.521 | 49,113 |
| 2021 | 93.3 | 67.6 | 1.138 | 50,389 |
| 2022 | 227.5 | 91.9 | 1.933 | 52,070 |
| 2023 | 277.7 | 98.4 | 2.372 | 54,018 |
SAIDI nMED = SAIDI without major event days. Source: EIA Form 861.
Service Area
Wake Electric Membership Corp serves 26 ZIP codes in North Carolina.
Frequently Asked Questions
How reliable is Wake Electric Membership Corp?
Wake Electric Membership Corp had a SAIDI of 277.7 minutes in 2023 including major weather events, but 98.4 minutes excluding them (the IEEE-standard day-to-day reliability measure, the difference points to a major storm that year rather than an ongoing problem). Leaving aside major weather events, that figure comes in under the national average, pointing to above-average reliability.
What type of utility is Wake Electric Membership Corp?
Wake Electric Membership Corp is classified as a Cooperative serving North Carolina.
How many customers does Wake Electric Membership Corp serve?
Wake Electric Membership Corp serves approximately 53,873 customers in North Carolina.
How has Wake Electric Membership Corp's reliability changed over time?
Wake Electric Membership Corp has 4 years of reliability data (2020-2023). SAIDI has remained relatively stable over this period. Review the trend table above for year-by-year detail.
Utility Profile
- Type
- Cooperative
- State
- North Carolina
- Customers
- 53,873
- Annual Revenue
- $0.10B
- EIA ID
- 19981
Explore
Utilities with similar EIA profiles
Two cross-state peer sets for Wake Electric Membership Corp. Same-state SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with below; these neighborhoods are nearest other-state utilities with at least 10,000 reported customers.
Similar customer count
Nearest utilities by Form 861 customers (54K here), outside North Carolina.
Similar chronic SAIDI
Nearest utilities by latest SAIDI minutes (277.7 here), outside North Carolina, excluding the customer-peer set.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 861 annual electric power industry survey · ZIP service territory: OpenEI. Disclaimer: informational only, not professional advice. See full disclaimer · methodology.