Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc, OK
Power reliability at Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Oklahoma's Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc customers lost power 1.4 times in the most recent year, 13.3 hours in total. That is 180% more outage time than the Oklahoma state average of 4.8 hours a year.
How long a single Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 9.3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 7,528 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,528 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Oklahoma is covered too: see Oklahoma's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.