Quick Overview

  • Geor­gia’s Elec­tric Mem­ber­ship Coop­er­a­tives (EMCs) are mem­ber-owned, not-for-prof­it util­i­ties that serve approx­i­mate­ly 4.4 mil­lion of Georgia’s 10 mil­lion res­i­dents and 73 per­cent of the state’s land area.
  • Georgia’s EMCs employ more than 6,000 work­ers and oper­ate by far the largest dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work in the state, with 196,921 miles of elec­tric pow­er lines.
  • As of 2023, Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive has total and exclu­sive ser­vice respon­si­bil­i­ty for rough­ly 573 square miles in one of the fastest-grow­ing regions of the South with 24,833 elec­tric meters, adding more than 600 new per­ma­nent ser­vices each year.
  • The phys­i­cal plant of Coastal Elec­tric con­sists of approx­i­mate­ly 1,798 miles of pow­er lines in Bryan, Lib­er­ty, Long, and McIn­tosh coun­ties with head­quar­ters locat­ed in Mid­way, Geor­gia.

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