Washington Elec Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Washington Elec Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 20146. It reports service to approximately 16,211 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 26 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 Washington Elec Member Corp customer experienced 715.9 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (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. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 515.5 minutes; the difference from the headline 715.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Washington 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. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 319.3 to 715.9 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.