Electric utility · EIA utility id 18305
Sumter Electric Member Corp
- Ownership, as EIA reports it
- Cooperative
- States served
- GA
- Customers in 2025
- 21,473
- Sales in 2025
- 380,843 MWh
- Revenue in 2025
- $56,586,300
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861) · data for 2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
If Sumter Electric Member Corp sends your bill
What it sells and charges
Full service (energy and delivery)
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue | Average price (cents per kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 15,145 | 236,883 | $34,633,200 | 14.62 |
| Commercial | 6,318 | 112,294 | $18,243,000 | 16.25 |
| Industrial | 10 | 31,666 | $3,710,100 | 11.72 |
Its average price is 1% below the state average for residential customers (14.74 cents per kWh in GA).
How we got this
$34,633,200 residential revenue ÷ 236,883,000 kWh residential sales = 14.62 cents per kWh
Average price is revenue divided by sales, for full-service customers only. It averages every rate and every month, so one household's price can differ. State averages count revenue from every kind of service and sales only once, as EIA does.
Trends, 2021 to 2025
Trend table
| Year | Residential average price (cents per kWh) | Customers |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13.03 | 20,859 |
| 2022 | 13.40 | 21,046 |
| 2023 | 13.81 | 21,154 |
| 2024 | 14.14 | 21,314 |
| 2025 | 14.62 | 21,473 |
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861), 2021 to 2025 · data for 2021-2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Annual peak demand
Not reported to FERC. Only utilities that plan or balance their own system file Form 714.
Catalyst Cooperative (PUDL), from FERC Form 714 · Annual peak demand by planning area (FERC Form 714, through PUDL) · data for 2006-2025 · as of Oct 14, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Jan 14, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Reliability
| State | Standard | SAIDI with major events (minutes) | SAIFI with major events | SAIDI without major events (minutes) | SAIFI without major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA | IEEE 1366 | 159.43 | 134.15 |
SAIDI is the average minutes without power per customer in the year; SAIFI is how many outages the average customer had. Major event days are storms and similar rare days, counted with and without.
Generation it operates
It operates no power plants listed in EIA-860, so it buys all of its power.
Published rates
9 rates in the OpenEI database, newest updated Mar 26, 2015.
OpenEI (National Laboratory of the Rockies), with rates entered by contributors · U.S. Utility Rate Database (OpenEI) · data for 2026-10 · as of Oct 30, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Nov 30, 2026. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Customer-owned generation (net metering)
| Year | Photovoltaic (MW) | Battery or storage (MW) | Wind (MW) | Other (MW) | All technologies (MW) | Installations | Energy sold back (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 32 | |||
| 2022 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 59 | |||
| 2023 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 67 | 320 | ||
| 2024 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 71 | 395 | ||
| 2025 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 76 | 406 |
Before 2023, EIA reported storage paired with photovoltaic inside the photovoltaic group; from 2023, batteries are their own group, paired with photovoltaic or not. Neither is added into photovoltaic here.
| Sector | All technologies (MW) | Installations | Energy sold back (MWh) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 0.5 | 68 | 222 |
| Commercial | 0.8 | 8 | 184 |
We do not restate net metering rules, which change. The rules are with Georgia Public Service Commission · the DSIRE policy database (NC Clean Energy Technology Center)
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Net metering and other distributed generation (Form EIA-861), 2021 to 2025 · data for 2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Nov 1, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Nov 1, 2026.