Alcorn County Elec Power Assn, MS
Power reliability at Alcorn County Elec Power Assn
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Alcorn County Elec Power Assn's Mississippi customers went without power for only 6 minutes across 1.4 separate outages last year. That is 99% less outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 4 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Alcorn County Elec Power Assn
Serving 19,204 customers here, With a record this steady, Alcorn County Elec Power Assn customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Alcorn County Elec Power Assn files with federal regulators every year - serving 19,204 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Mississippi is covered too: see Mississippi's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.